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Proverbs 31:10-12 KJV

Proverbs · chapter 31 · verses 10–12 · King James Version

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.Proverbs 31:10-12 · King James Version

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Proverbs 31:10-12 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.

13She seeketh wool, and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands.

14She is like the merchants’ ships; she bringeth her food from afar.

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Commentary

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

Cross references

Key words (Strong's)

virtuouschayilprobably a force, whether of men, means or other resourcesH2428 →
husbandbaʻala masterH1167 →
womanʼishshâha womanH802 →
pricemekermerchandiseH4377 →
heartlêbthe heartH3820 →
trustbâṭachfiguratively, to trust, be confident or sureH982 →
findmâtsâʼproperly, to come forth toH4672 →
needchâçêrto lackH2637 →

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