Proverbs 14:1 Meaning Every Wise Woman Builds Her House

The same mind both builds and tears down, and which it does depends only on the teacher it has chosen. Guided by love, it raises a dwelling of peace thought by thought, each forgiving perception laid quietly upon the last. Nothing outside it is required; the building is done entirely in how it looks.

Guided by fear, that mind undoes its own shelter with its own hands, for every judgment it throws outward is a stone pulled from its own walls. It is never attacked from without; it dismantles itself whenever it chooses to condemn.

House: the inner dwelling of the mind, the state of peace or ruin it builds for itself by the thoughts it chooses to keep Hands: the mind's own power to make, the same strength that raises a home of peace or pulls it down through judgment