Proverbs 30:23 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²³For an odious woman when she is married; and an handmaid that is heir to her mistress.

Proverbs 30:23 —

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Cross-References

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Proverbs 27:15
A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike.
Proverbs 21:19
It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry woman.
Proverbs 29:21
He that delicately bringeth up his servant from a child shall have him become his son at the length.
Proverbs 21:9
It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house.
Proverbs 19:13
A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.

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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…

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

(vv. 23)

21-23. Pride and cruelty, the undue exaltation of those unfit to hold power, produce those vices which disquiet society (compare Pr 19:10; 28:3).