Parallel Verses

Youngs Literal Translation

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

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.

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 calamity to his father is a foolish son, And the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping. 14 House and wealth are the inheritance of fathers, And from Jehovah is an understanding wife. 15 Sloth causeth deep sleep to fall, And an indolent soul doth hunger.

Cross References

Proverbs 18:22

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

2 Corinthians 12:14

Lo, a third time I am ready to come unto you, and I will not be a burden to you, for I seek not yours, but you, for the children ought not for the parents to lay up, but the parents for the children,

Proverbs 3:6

In all thy ways know thou Him, And He doth make straight thy paths.

Proverbs 13:22

A good man causeth sons' sons to inherit, And laid up for the righteous is the sinner's wealth.

Proverbs 31:10-31

A woman of worth who doth find? Yea, far above rubies is her price.

James 1:17

every good giving, and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the lights, with whom is no variation, or shadow of turning;

Genesis 24:7

Jehovah, God of the heavens, who hath taken me from the house of my father, and from the land of my birth, and who hath spoken to me, and who hath sworn to me, saying, To thy seed I give this land, He doth send His messenger before thee, and thou hast taken a wife for my son from thence;

Genesis 28:1-4

And Isaac calleth unto Jacob, and blesseth him, and commandeth him, and saith to him, 'Thou dost not take a wife of the daughters of Caanan;

Deuteronomy 21:16

then it hath been, in the day of his causing his sons to inherit that which he hath, he is not able to declare first-born the son of the loved one, in the face of the son of the hated one -- the first-born.

Joshua 11:23

And Joshua taketh the whole of the land, according to all that Jehovah hath spoken unto Moses, and Joshua giveth it for an inheritance to Israel according to their divisions, by their tribes; and the land hath rest from war.

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