Parallel Verses

A Conservative Version

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

New American Standard Bible

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

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

A house and wealth are inherited from fathers,
but a sensible wife is from the Lord.

International Standard Version

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

American Standard Version

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

Amplified


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

Bible in Basic English

House and wealth are a heritage from fathers, but a wife with good sense is from the Lord.

Darby Translation

House and wealth are an inheritance from fathers; but a prudent wife is from Jehovah.

Julia Smith Translation

A house and wealth the inheritance of fathers: and an understanding wife from Jehovah.

King James 2000

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

Lexham Expanded Bible

A house and wealth [are] an inheritance [from] fathers, but from Yahweh [comes] a woman who is prudent.

Modern King James verseion

Houses and riches are the inheritance of fathers, and a prudent wife is from Jehovah.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

House and riches may a man have by the heritage of his elders; but a discreet woman is the gift of the LORD.

NET Bible

A 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.

The Emphasized Bible

House and substance, are an inheritance from one's fathers, but, from Yahweh, cometh a wife who is prudent.

Webster

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.

Youngs Literal Translation

House and wealth are the inheritance of fathers, And from Jehovah is an understanding wife.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
בּית 
Bayith 
Usage: 2053

and riches
הון 
Hown 
Usage: 26

נחלה 
Nachalah 
Usage: 222

and a prudent
שׂכל 
Sakal 
Usage: 63

נשׁים אשּׁה 
'ishshah 
Usage: 780

References

Fausets

Hastings

Context Readings

A Foolish Son Brings Ruin To Others

13 A foolish son is the calamity of his father, and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping. 14 House and riches are an inheritance from fathers, but a prudent wife is from LORD. 15 Slothfulness casts into a deep sleep, and the idle soul shall suffer hunger.

Cross References

Proverbs 18:22

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

2 Corinthians 12:14

Behold, a third time I fare readily to come to you, and I will not be burdensome to you, for I seek not the things of you, but you. For the children ought not lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

Proverbs 3:6

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

Proverbs 13:22

A good man leaves an inheritance to his son's sons, and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the righteous.

Proverbs 31:10-31

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

James 1:17

Every good gift and every perfect endowment is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation nor shadow of turning.

Genesis 24:7

LORD, the God of heaven, who took me from my father's house, and from the land of my nativity, and who spoke to me, and who swore to me, saying, To thy seed I will give this land, he will send his [heavenly] agent before thee, and

Genesis 28:1-4

And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and ordered him, and said to him, Thou shall not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan.

Deuteronomy 21:16

then it shall be, in the day that he causes his sons to inherit that which he has, that he may not make the son of the beloved the first-born before the son of the one regarded inferior, who is the first-born.

Joshua 11:23

So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that LORD spoke to Moses. And Joshua gave it for an inheritance to Israel according to their divisions by their tribes. And the land had rest from war.

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