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Proverbs 19:14

The Pulpit Commentary on Proverbs 19:14

The Pulpit Commentary · Joseph S. Exell and contributors · Public domain

House and riches are an inheritance of (from) fathers. Any man, worthy or not, may inherit property from progenitors; any man may bargain for a wife, or give a dowry to his son to further his matrimonial prospects.

But a prudent wife is from the Lord. She is a special gift of God, a proof of his gracious care for his servants (see on ). Septuagint, παρὰ δὲ κυρίου ἀρμόζεται γυνὴ ἀνδρί, "It is by the Lord that a man is matched with a woman."

There is a special providence that watches over wedlock; as we say, "Marriages are made in heaven." But marriages of convenience, marriages made in consideration of worldly means, are a mere earthly arrangement, and claim no particular grace.

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