Proverbs 31:17 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁷She girdeth her loins with strength, and strengtheneth her arms.

Proverbs 31:17 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 38:3
Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I will demand of thee, and answer thou me.
Ephesians 6:10
Finally, my brethren, be strong in the Lord, and in the power of his might.
1 Peter 1:13
Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;
Ephesians 6:14
Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;
Luke 12:35
Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning;

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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 had…

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

(vv. 17)

10-31. This exquisite picture of a truly lovely wife is conceived and drawn in accordance with the customs of Eastern nations, but its moral teachings suit all climes. In Hebrew the verses begin with the letters of the Hebrew alphabet in order (compare Introduction to Poetical Books). Who ... woman--The question implies that such are rare, though not entirely wanting (compare Pr 18:22; 19:14). vir…