Proverbs 12:4 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁴A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband: but she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.

Proverbs 12:4 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 14:30
A sound heart is the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones.
Proverbs 14:1
Every wise woman buildeth her house: but the foolish plucketh it down with her hands.
Proverbs 31:10-25
Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies. …
Proverbs 21:19
It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry woman.
1 Corinthians 11:11
Nevertheless neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man, in the Lord.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 4)

Note, 1. He that is blessed with a good wife is as happy as if he were upon the throne, for she is no less than a crown to him. A virtuous woman, that is pious and prudent, ingenious and industrious, that is active for the good of her family and looks well to the ways of her household, that makes conscience of her duty in every relation, a woman of spirit, that can bear crosses without disturbance…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 4)

4. A virtuous woman--in the wide sense of well-disposed to all moral duties (Pr 31:10). maketh ashamed--that is, by misconduct. rottenness--an incurable evil.