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Proverbs 31:10 KJV
Proverbs · chapter 31 · verse 10
Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.Proverbs 31:10 · King James Version
Proverbs 31:10 in context
8Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of all such as are appointed to destruction.
9Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.
10Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.
11The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil.
12She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life.
Commentary
Cross references
- Proverbs 19:14
- Proverbs 12:4
- Proverbs 18:22
- Ephesians 5:25-33
- Proverbs 3:15
- Song of Solomon 6:8-9
- Ruth 3:11
- Proverbs 20:15
Key words (Strong's)
- virtuouschayilprobably a force, whether of men, means or other resourcesH2428 →
- womanʼishshâha womanH802 →
- pricemekermerchandiseH4377 →
- findmâtsâʼproperly, to come forth toH4672 →
- farrâchôwqremote, literally or figuratively, of place or timeH7350 →
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This description of the virtuous woman is designed to show what wives the women should make and what wives the men should choose; it consists of twenty-two verses, each beginning with a letter of the Hebrew alphabet in order, as some of the Psalms, which makes some think it was no part of the lesson which Lemuel's…
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 10-31