18  Let your fountain be blessed,

and rejoice in the wife of your youth,

4  ^zAn excellent wife is the crown of her husband,

but she who brings shame is like rottenness in his bones.

22  He who ^bfinds a wife finds a good thing

and obtains favor from the Lord.

13  ^rA foolish son is ruin to his father,

and ^sa wife’s quarreling is a continual dripping of rain.

14  House and wealth are inherited from fathers,

but a prudent wife is from the Lord.

10  ^{1 v}An excellent wife ^wwho can ^xfind?

She is far more precious than jewels.