Proverbs 14:1 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

Every wise woman buildeth her house: But the foolish plucketh it down with her own hands.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

EVERY WISE woman builds her house, but the foolish one tears it down with her own hands.

American Standard Version (1901)

Every wise woman buildeth her house; But the foolish plucketh it down with her own hands.

Common English Bible

A wise woman builds her house, while a foolish woman tears hers down with her own hands.

Catholic Public Domain Version

A wise woman builds up her household. But a foolish one will pull down with her own hands what has been built up.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

A wise woman buildeth her house: but the foolish will pull down with her hands that also which is built.

Proverbs 14:1 Cross References

1 Kings 16:31

And it came to pass, as if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, that he took to wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Zidonians, and went and served Baal, and worshipped him.

2 Kings 11:1

Now when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the seed royal.

Proverbs 19:13

A foolish son is the calamity of his father: And the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.

Proverbs 21:19

It is better to dwell in a desert land, Than with a contentious and fretful woman.

Proverbs 21:9

It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, Than with a contentious woman in a wide house.

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 Ephrathah, and be famous in Beth-lehem: