Parallel Verses

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.

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.

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 destruction to his father,
And the contentions of a wife are a constant dripping.
14 House and wealth are an inheritance from fathers,
But a prudent wife is from the Lord.
15 Laziness casts into a deep sleep,
And an idle man will suffer hunger.



Cross References

Proverbs 18:22

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

2 Corinthians 12:14

Here for this third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be a burden to you; for I do not seek what is yours, but you; for children are not responsible to save up for their parents, but parents for their children.

Proverbs 3:6

In all your ways acknowledge Him,
And He will make your paths straight.

Proverbs 13:22

A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children,
And the wealth of the sinner is stored up for the righteous.

Proverbs 31:10-31

An excellent wife, who can find?
For her worth is far above jewels.

James 1:17

Every good thing given and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shifting shadow.

Genesis 24:7

The Lord, the God of heaven, who took me from my father’s house and from the land of my birth, and who spoke to me and who swore to me, saying, ‘To your descendants I will give this land,’ He will send His angel before you, and you will take a wife for my son from there.

Genesis 28:1-4

So Isaac called Jacob and blessed him and charged him, and said to him, “You shall not take a wife from the daughters of Canaan.

Deuteronomy 21:16

then it shall be in the day he wills what he has to his sons, he cannot make the son of the loved the firstborn before the son of the unloved, who is the firstborn.

Joshua 11:23

So Joshua took the whole land, according to all that the Lord had spoken to Moses, and Joshua gave it for an inheritance to Israel according to their divisions by their tribes. Thus the land had rest from war.

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