10Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.
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House and riches are the inheritance of fathers: and a prudent wife is from the LORD.
A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband: but she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.
Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the LORD.
Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it; …
She is more precious than rubies: and all the things thou canst desire are not to be compared unto her.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 10-31)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 mother taught him, but a poem by itself, written by some other hand, and perhaps ha…
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