23For an odious woman when she is married; and an handmaid that is heir to her mistress.
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Cross-References
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike.
It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry woman.
He that delicately bringeth up his servant from a child shall have him become his son at the length.
It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house.
A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 18-23)Here is, I. An account of four things that are unsearchable, too wonderful to be fully known. And here, 1. The first three are natural things, and are only designed as comparisons for the illustration of the last. We cannot trace, (1.) An eagle in the air . Which way she has flown cannot be discovered either by the footstep or by the scent, as the way of a beast may upon ground; nor can we account…
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