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Proverbs 18:22
22If you find a wife, you find a good thing. The Lord has given you something to enjoy.
Proverbs 18:22 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the Lord.
- New International Version (NIV)He who finds a wife finds what is good and receives favor from the Lord.
- English Standard Version (ESV)He who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favor from the Lord.
- New King James Version (NKJV)He who finds a wife finds a good thing, And obtains favor from the Lord.
Context of Proverbs 18:22
20If you speak words that help people, they are like good food. 21Words have the power to bring life or death. So be careful if you talk a lot! If you find a wife, you find a good thing. The Lord has given you something to enjoy. 23A poor person has to ask for help. But a rich person can insult people. 24A man with many friends may lose them. But there is a friend who is more faithful than a brother.
Read all of Proverbs 18Proverbs 18:22 word by word
מָצָ֣א אִ֭שָּׁה מָ֣צָא ט֑וֹב וַיָּ֥פֶק רָ֝צ֗וֹן מֵיְהוָֽה׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Proverbs 18:22
- Proverbs 5:15You should enjoy your own wife, as you enjoy clean water to drink.
- Proverbs 12:4A good wife will bring honour to her husband, like a crown. But a wife who brings shame to her husband will take away his strength.
- Proverbs 19:14Your parents may give you riches and a house to live in. But only the Lord can give you a wise wife.
- Proverbs 31:10How difficult it is to find a wife who is truly wise! She is worth much more than valuable jewels.
- Genesis 24:67Isaac took Rebekah into the tent that his mother Sarah had lived in. Rebekah became Isaac's wife. And Isaac loved Rebekah. So Isaac was happy again, after the death of his mother.
- Genesis 29:20Jacob worked for seven years to have Rachel as his wife. But the years passed very quickly because Jacob loved Rachel very much. Seven years seemed like only a few days to Jacob.
- Ecclesiastes 9:9Love your wife and enjoy your life together with her. God has given you your life. It is a short life and it is difficult to understand everything that happens. God wants you to enjoy these things as you do hard work during your life on the earth.
- Hosea 12:12Jacob ran away to the land of Aram. He worked there as a shepherd so that he could get a wife.
- 1 Corinthians 7:2That may be true, but then people may have sex in wrong ways. So every man should have his own wife and every woman should have her own husband.
- Proverbs 3:4If you do that, you will make God happy. People will also be pleased and they will respect you.
- Proverbs 8:35Anyone who finds me, wisdom, finds true life. The Lord will bless that person.
Commentaries on Proverbs 18:22
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 22Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing - Marriage, with all its troubles and embarrassments, is a blessing from God; and there are few cases where a wife of any sort is not better than none, because celibacy is an evil; for God himself hath said, "It is not good for man to be alone." None of the versions, except the Chaldee, are pleased with the naked simplicity of the Hebrew text, hence they all add good: "He that findeth a Good wife findeth a good…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 22The sense seems to require, “Whoso findeth a good wife,” as in some Chaldee manuscripts; but the proverb writer may be looking at marriage in its ideal aspect, and sees in every such union the hands of God joining together man and woman for their mutual good. The Septuagint adds “He who casts out a good wife, casts away that which is good: but he that keepeth an adulteress is foolish and ungodly.”Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 22Verse 22 A good wife is a great blessing to a man, and it is a token of Divine favour.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 2222. The old versions supply "good" before the "wife," as the last clause and Pr 19:14 imply (compare Pr 31:10).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Proverbs 18
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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