Bible verse

Proverbs 19:14

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

Proverbs 19:14 · BSB

Proverbs 19:14 in context

The verses around it, from Proverbs 19.

10 Luxury is unseemly for a fool—how much worse for a slave to rule over princes!

11 A man’s insight gives him patience, and his virtue is to overlook an offense.

12 A king’s rage is like the roar of a lion, but his favor is like dew on the grass.

13 A foolish son is his father’s ruin, and a quarrelsome wife is like a constant dripping.

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

15 Laziness brings on deep sleep, and an idle soul will suffer hunger.

16 He who keeps a commandment preserves his soul, but he who is careless in his ways will die.

17 Kindness to the poor is a loan to the LORD, and He will repay the lender.

18 Discipline your son, for in that there is hope; do not be party to his death.

Read all of Proverbs 19

Proverbs 19:14 in other translations

KJV

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

ASV

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

ERV

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

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