15She riseth also while it is yet night, and giveth meat to her household, and a portion to her maidens.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Not slothful in business; fervent in spirit; serving the Lord;
And the Lord said, Who then is that faithful and wise steward, whom his lord shall make ruler over his household, to give them their portion of meat in due season?
And in the morning, rising up a great while before day, he went out, and departed into a solitary place, and there prayed.
Love not sleep, lest thou come to poverty; open thine eyes, and thou shalt be satisfied with bread.
I prevented the dawning of the morning, and cried: I hoped in thy word. …
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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