Parallel Verses
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.
New American Standard Bible
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
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.
A Conservative Version
House and riches are an inheritance from fathers, but a prudent wife is from LORD.
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.
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.
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 19:14
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Foolish Son Brings Ruin To Others
13 An indiscreet son is the heaviness of his father; and a brawling wife is like the top of a house, wherethrough it is ever dropping. 14 House and riches may a man have by the heritage of his elders; but a discreet woman is the gift of the LORD. 15 Slothfulness bringeth sleep; and an idle soul shall suffer hunger.
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Cross References
Proverbs 18:22
Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and receiveth an wholesome benefit of the LORD.
2 Corinthians 12:14
Behold now, the third time, I am ready to come unto you, and yet will I not be grievous unto you. For I seek not yours, but you. Also the children ought not to lay up for the fathers and mothers: but the fathers and mothers for the children.
Proverbs 3:6
In all thy ways have respect unto him, and he shall order thy goings.
Proverbs 13:22
which their children's children shall have in possession - for the riches of the sinner is laid up for the just.
Proverbs 31:10-31
Whoso findeth a honest faithful woman, she is much more worth than pearls.
James 1:17
Every good gift, and every perfect gift, is from above and cometh down from the father of light, with whom is no variableness, neither is he changed unto darkness.
Genesis 24:7
The LORD God of heaven which took me from my father's house and from the land where I was born, and which spake unto me and sware unto me saying 'unto thy seed will I give this land' - he shall send his angel before thee, that thou mayest take a wife unto my son from thence.
Genesis 28:1-4
Then Isaac called Jacob his son and blessed him, and charged him and said unto him, "See thou take not a wife of the daughters of Canaan,
Deuteronomy 21:16
if the firstborn be the son of the hated: then when he dealeth his goods among his children, he may not make the son of the beloved firstborn before the son of the hated which is indeed the firstborn:
Joshua 11:23
And Joshua took the whole land according to all that the LORD said unto Moses, and gave it a possession unto Israel, every man his part in their tribes: and the land rested from war.