22Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the LORD.
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House and riches are the inheritance of fathers: and a prudent wife is from the LORD.
Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies. …
A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband: but she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.
Live joyfully with the wife whom thou lovest all the days of the life of thy vanity, which he hath given thee under the sun, all the days of thy vanity: for that is thy portion in this life, and in thy labour which thou takest under the sun.
Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 22)Note, 1. A good wife is a great blessing to a man. He that finds a wife (that is, a wife indeed; a bad wife does not deserve to be called by a name of so much honour), that finds a help meet for him (that is a wife in the original acceptation of the word), that sought such a one with care and prayer and has found what he sought, he has found a good thing , a jewel of great value, a rare jewel; he…
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