Parallel Verses

A Conservative Version

He who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor from LORD.

New American Standard Bible

He who finds a wife finds a good thing
And obtains favor from the Lord.

King James Version

Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the LORD.

Holman Bible

A man who finds a wife finds a good thing
and obtains favor from the Lord.

International Standard Version

Whoever finds a wife finds what is good, and receives favor from the LORD.

American Standard Version

Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, And obtaineth favor of Jehovah.

Amplified


He who finds a [true and faithful] wife finds a good thing
And obtains favor and approval from the Lord.

Bible in Basic English

Whoever gets a wife gets a good thing, and has the approval of the Lord.

Darby Translation

Whoso hath found a wife hath found a good thing, and hath obtained favour from Jehovah.

Julia Smith Translation

He finding a wife found good, and shall obtain acceptance from Jehovah.

King James 2000

Whosoever finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor of the LORD.

Lexham Expanded Bible

He who finds a wife finds good, and he will obtain favor from Yahweh.

Modern King James verseion

Whoever finds a wife finds good and gets favor from Jehovah.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and receiveth an wholesome benefit of the LORD.

NET Bible

The one who finds a wife finds what is enjoyable, and receives a pleasurable gift from the Lord.

New Heart English Bible

Whoever finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor of the LORD.

The Emphasized Bible

Who hath found a wife, hath found a blessing, and hath obtained favour from Yahweh.

Webster

Whoever findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favor from the LORD.

World English Bible

Whoever finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor of Yahweh.

Youngs Literal Translation

Whoso hath found a wife hath found good, And bringeth out good-will from Jehovah.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
מצא 
Matsa' 
Usage: 455

a wife
נשׁים אשּׁה 
'ishshah 
Usage: 780

מצא 
Matsa' 
Usage: 455

פּוּק 
Puwq 
Usage: 7

רצן רצון 
Ratsown 
Usage: 56

References

Fausets

Context Readings

How To Avoid Fools And Foolishness

21 Death and life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it shall eat the fruit of it. 22 He who finds a wife finds a good thing, and obtains favor from LORD. 23 A poor man uses entreaties, but a rich man answers roughly.



Cross References

Proverbs 19:14

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

Proverbs 12:4

A worthy woman is the crown of her husband, but she who makes ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.

Proverbs 8:35

For he who finds me finds life, and shall obtain favor of LORD.

Proverbs 31:10-31

A worthy woman who can find? For her price is far above rubies.

Genesis 24:67

And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah's tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife, and he loved her. And Isaac was comforted after his mother's death.

Ecclesiastes 9:9

Live joyfully with the wife whom thou love all the days of thy life of vanity, which he has given thee under the sun, all thy days of vanity. For that is thy portion in life, and in thy labor in which thou labor under the sun.

Genesis 2:18

And LORD God said, It is not good that the man should be alone, I will make a help meet for him.

1 Corinthians 7:2

But because of fornications, let each man have his own wife, and let each woman have her own husband.

Genesis 29:20-21

And Jacob served seven years for Rachel. And they seemed to him but a few days, for the love he had for her.

Genesis 29:28

And Jacob did so, and fulfilled her week. And he gave him Rachel his daughter to wife.

Proverbs 3:4

so thou shall find favor and good understanding in the sight of God and man.

Proverbs 5:15-23

Drink waters out of thine own cistern, and running waters out of thine own well.

Hosea 12:12

And Jacob fled into the field of Aram, and Israel served for a wife, and for a wife he kept [sheep].

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