Albert Barnes Commentary Proverbs 18:22

"Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, And obtaineth favor of Jehovah." — Proverbs 18:22 (ASV)

The sense seems to require, Whoso findeth a good wife, as in some Chaldee manuscripts; but the proverb writer may be looking at marriage in its ideal aspect, and sees in every such union the hands of God joining together man and woman for their mutual good. The Septuagint adds, He who casts out a good wife, casts away that which is good: but he that keepeth an adulteress is foolish and ungodly.