Proverbs 19:14

Proverbs chapter 19 · verse 14 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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

Context

v.13A foolish son is the calamity of his father; And the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.

v.14This passage

v.15Slothfulness casteth into a deep sleep; And the idle soul shall suffer hunger.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Genesis 24:7

    Jehovah, the God of heaven, who took me from my father’s house, and from the land of my nativity, and who spake unto me, and who sware unto me, saying, Unto thy seed will I give this land; he will send his angel before thee, and thou shalt take a wife for my son from thence.

  • Deuteronomy 21:16

    then it shall be, in the day that he causeth his sons to inherit that which he hath, that he may not make the son of the beloved the first-born before the son of the hated, who is the first-born:

  • Proverbs 13:22

    A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children’s children; And the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the righteous.

  • Genesis 28:1

    And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and charged him, and said unto him, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan.

  • James 1:17

    Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom can be no variation, neither shadow that is cast by turning.

  • Proverbs 3:6

    In all thy ways acknowledge him, And he will direct thy paths.