11(She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house:
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A foolish woman is clamorous: she is simple, and knoweth nothing.
To be discreet, chaste, keepers at home, good, obedient to their own husbands, that the word of God be not blasphemed.
And withal they learn to be idle, wandering about from house to house; and not only idle, but tattlers also and busybodies, speaking things which they ought not. …
Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies. …
He that blesseth his friend with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, it shall be counted a curse to him. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 6-23)Solomon here, to enforce the caution he had given against the sin of whoredom, tells a story of a young man that was ruined to all intents and purposes by the enticements of an adulterous woman. Such a story as this would serve the lewd profane poets of our age to make a play of, and the harlot with them would be a heroine; nothing would be so entertaining to the audience, nor give them so much di…
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