Proverbs 18:22 (BSB)

He who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favor from the LORD.

From Proverbs 18. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 18:22

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 18:22: 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...
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 18:22: Whoso findeth a wife,.... A good one; so the Septuagint, Vulgate Latin, Syriac, and Arabic versions, supply it; and so the Targum, though it leaves out the word good in the last clause; and no other can be meant, even a good natured one, wise, prudent, careful, and industrious; a proper helpmeet, a virtuous woman, as in Pro 31:10; whoso seeks after such an one...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 18:22: The old versions supply "good" before the "wife," as the last clause and Pro 19:14 imply (compare Pro 31:10).
• Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Proverbs 18:22: [Whoever] findeth a wife findeth a good [thing], and obtaineth favour from the LORD. (p) He who is joined with a virtuous woman in marriage is blessed by the Lord, as in .