Proverbs 19:14
New International Version
Houses and wealth are inherited from parents, but a prudent wife is from the LORD.

New Living Translation
Fathers can give their sons an inheritance of houses and wealth, but only the LORD can give an understanding wife.

English Standard Version
House and wealth are inherited from fathers, but a prudent wife is from the LORD.

Berean Standard Bible
Houses and wealth are inherited from fathers, but a prudent wife is from the LORD.

King James Bible
House and riches are the inheritance of fathers: and a prudent wife is from the LORD.

New King James Version
Houses and riches are an inheritance from fathers, But a prudent wife is from the LORD.

New American Standard Bible
House and wealth are an inheritance from fathers, But a prudent wife is from the LORD.

NASB 1995
House and wealth are an inheritance from fathers, But a prudent wife is from the LORD.

NASB 1977
House and wealth are an inheritance from fathers, But a prudent wife is from the LORD.

Legacy Standard Bible
House and wealth are an inheritance from fathers, But a wife who has insight is from Yahweh.

Amplified Bible
House and wealth are the inheritance from fathers, But a wise, understanding, and sensible wife is [a gift and blessing] from the LORD.

Christian Standard Bible
A house and wealth are inherited from fathers, but a prudent wife is from the LORD.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
A house and wealth are inherited from fathers, but a sensible wife is from the LORD.

American Standard Version
House and riches are an inheritance from fathers; But a prudent wife is from Jehovah.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
A house and property is the inheritance of a father and a woman is betrothed to a man from LORD JEHOVAH.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Fathers divide house and substance to their children: but a wife is suited to a man by the Lord.

Contemporary English Version
You may inherit all you own from your parents, but a sensible wife is a gift from the LORD.

Douay-Rheims Bible
House and riches are given by parents: but a prudent wife is properly from the Lord.

English Revised Version
House and riches are an inheritance from fathers: but a prudent wife is from the LORD.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Home and wealth are inherited from fathers, but a sensible wife comes from the LORD.

Good News Translation
A man can inherit a house and money from his parents, but only the LORD can give him a sensible wife.

International Standard Version
A house and self-sufficiency are a father's inheritance, but from the LORD comes an insightful wife.

JPS Tanakh 1917
House and riches are the inheritance of fathers; But a prudent wife is from the LORD.

Literal Standard Version
House and wealth [are] the inheritance of fathers, | And an understanding wife [is] from YHWH.

Majority Standard Bible
Houses and wealth are inherited from fathers, but a prudent wife is from the LORD.

New American Bible
Home and possessions are an inheritance from parents, but a prudent wife is from the LORD.

NET Bible
A house and wealth are inherited from parents, but a prudent wife is from the LORD.

New Revised Standard Version
House and wealth are inherited from parents, but a prudent wife is from the LORD.

New Heart English Bible
House and riches are an inheritance from fathers, but a prudent wife is from the LORD.

Webster's Bible Translation
House and riches are the inheritance of fathers: and a prudent wife is from the LORD.

World English Bible
House and riches are an inheritance from fathers, but a prudent wife is from Yahweh.

Young's Literal Translation
House and wealth are the inheritance of fathers, And from Jehovah is an understanding wife.

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Context
The Man of Integrity
13A foolish son is his father’s ruin, and a quarrelsome wife is like a constant dripping. 14Houses and wealth are inherited from fathers, but a prudent wife is from the LORD. 15Laziness brings on deep sleep, and an idle soul will suffer hunger.…

Cross References
2 Corinthians 12:14
See, I am ready to come to you a third time, and I will not be a burden, because I am not seeking your possessions, but you. For children should not have to save up for their parents, but parents for their children.

Proverbs 18:22
He who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favor from the LORD.

Proverbs 31:10
A wife of noble character, who can find? She is far more precious than rubies.


Treasury of Scripture

House and riches are the inheritance of fathers: and a prudent wife is from the LORD.

the inheritance

Proverbs 18:22
Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the LORD.

Deuteronomy 21:16
Then it shall be, when he maketh his sons to inherit that which he hath, that he may not make the son of the beloved firstborn before the son of the hated, which is indeed the firstborn:

Joshua 11:23
So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that the LORD said unto Moses; and Joshua gave it for an inheritance unto Israel according to their divisions by their tribes. And the land rested from war.

and a

Proverbs 3:6
In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.

Proverbs 18:22
Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the LORD.

Proverbs 31:10
Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.

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Verse 14. - House and riches are an inheritance of (from) fathers. Any man, worthy or not, may inherit property from progenitors; any man may bargain for a wife, or give a dowry to his son to further his matrimonial prospects. But a prudent wife is from the Lord. She is a special gift of God, a proof of his gracious care for his servants (see on Proverbs 18:22). Septuagint, Παρὰ δὲ Κυρίου ἀρμόζεται γυνὴ ἀνδρί, "It is by the Lord that a man is matched with a woman." There is a special providence that watches over wedlock; as we say, "Marriages are made in heaven." But marriages of convenience, marriages made in consideration of worldly means, are a mere earthly arrangement, and claim no particular grace.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Houses
בַּ֣יִת (ba·yiṯ)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 1004: A house

and wealth
וָ֭הוֹן (wā·hō·wn)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 1952: Wealth, sufficiency

are inherited
נַחֲלַ֣ת (na·ḥă·laṯ)
Noun - feminine singular construct
Strong's 5159: Something inherited, occupancy, an heirloom, an estate, patrimony, portion

from fathers,
אָב֑וֹת (’ā·ḇō·wṯ)
Noun - masculine plural
Strong's 1: Father

but a prudent
מַשְׂכָּֽלֶת׃ (maś·kā·leṯ)
Verb - Hifil - Participle - feminine singular
Strong's 7919: To be, circumspect, intelligent

wife
אִשָּׁ֥ה (’iš·šāh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 802: Woman, wife, female

[is] from the LORD.
וּ֝מֵיְהוָ֗ה (Yah·weh)
Conjunctive waw, Preposition-m | Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel


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