Proverbs 14:1

Tree of Life Version

A wise woman builds her house, but a foolish one tears it down with her own hands.

Cross References

Proverbs 21:9

It is better to live on a corner of a roof than in a house shared with a quarrelsome wife.

Proverbs 21:19

It is better to live in a desert land than with a quarrelsome, worrisome wife.

Ruth 4:11

All the people at the gate and the elders said, “We are witnesses. May Adonai make the woman who has come into your house like Rachel and like Leah, who both built up the house of Israel. May you prosper in Ephrath and be renowned in Bethlehem.

Proverbs 19:13

A foolish son is trouble for his father, and a quarrelsome wife is constant dripping.

1 Kings 16:31

Now, as if it was a trifling thing to walk in the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, he also took as wife Jezebel the daughter of King Ethbaal of the Sidonians, 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 royal offspring.