Proverbs 14:1 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹Every wise woman buildeth her house: but the foolish plucketh it down with her hands.

Proverbs 14:1 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 31:10-31
Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies. …
Proverbs 24:3-4
Through wisdom is an house builded; and by understanding it is established: …
Proverbs 21:9
It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house.
Proverbs 21:19
It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry woman.
Ruth 4:11
And all the people that were in the gate, and the elders, said, We are witnesses. The LORD make the woman that is come into thine house like Rachel and like Leah, which two did build the house of Israel: and do thou worthily in Ephratah, and be famous in Bethlehem:

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1)

Note, 1. A good wife is a great blessing to a family. By a fruitful wife a family is multiplied and replenished with children, and so built up. But by a prudent wife, one that is pious, industrious, and considerate, the affairs of the family are made to prosper, debts are paid, portions raised, provision made, the children well educated and maintained, and the family has comfort within doors and c…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 1)

Pr 14:1-35. 1. Every wise, &c.--literally, “The wisdoms” (compare Pr 9:1) “of women,” plural, a distributive form of speech. buildeth ... house--increases wealth, which the foolish, by mismanagement, lessen.