30Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the LORD, she shall be praised.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction.
But let it be the hidden man of the heart, in that which is not corruptible, even the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit, which is in the sight of God of great price. …
As a jewel of gold in a swine's snout, so is a fair woman which is without discretion.
The fear of the LORD is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate.
For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:
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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