18She perceiveth that her merchandise is good: her candle goeth not out by night.
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For ye remember, brethren, our labour and travail: for labouring night and day, because we would not be chargeable unto any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God.
They that were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them: …
Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep departed from mine eyes.
It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved sleep.
For yourselves know how ye ought to follow us: for we behaved not ourselves disorderly among you; …
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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