Christian Treasury Proverbs 14:1 Every wise woman builds her house: but the foolish plucks it down with her hands.… A plain marble stone, in a churchyard, bears this brief inscription: "She always made home happy." This epitaph was penned by a bereaved husband, after sixty years of wedded life. He might have said of his departed wife, she was beautiful, and accomplished, and an ornament to society, and yet not have said she made home happy. Alas, he might have added, she was a Christian, and not have been able to say, "She always made home happy." What a rare combination of virtues and graces this wife and mother must have possessed! How wisely she must have ordered her house! In what patience she must have possessed her soul! How self-denying she must have been! How tender and loving! How thoughtful for the comfort of all about her! (Christian Treasury.) Parallel Verses KJV: Every wise woman buildeth her house: but the foolish plucketh it down with her hands.WEB: Every wise woman builds her house, but the foolish one tears it down with her own hands. |
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