Proverbs 31:18 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁸She perceiveth that her merchandise is good: her candle goeth not out by night.

Proverbs 31:18 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

1 Thessalonians 2:9
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.
Matthew 25:3-10
They that were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them: …
Genesis 31:40
Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep departed from mine eyes.
Psalms 127:2
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.
2 Thessalonians 3:7-9
For yourselves know how ye ought to follow us: for we behaved not ourselves disorderly among you; …

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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. 18)

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…