Proverbs 31:30
Gracefulness is deceitful and beauty is vain; a woman [that] feareth Jehovah, she shall be praised.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the LORD, she shall be praised.
In Context
29Many daughters have done worthily, but thou excellest them all.
31Give her of the fruit of her hands, and let her own works praise her in the gates.
Cross References
Exodus 1:17But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt had said to them, but saved the male children alive.
Esther 1:11to bring Vashti the queen before the king with the royal crown to shew the peoples and the princes her beauty; for she was of beautiful countenance.
Proverbs 1:7The fear of Jehovah is the beginning of knowledge: fools despise wisdom and instruction.
Proverbs 8:13The fear of Jehovah is to hate evil; pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth do I hate.
Ecclesiastes 7:18It is good that thou shouldest take hold of this; yea, also from that withdraw not thy hand: for he that feareth God cometh forth from them all.
Ezekiel 16:15But thou didst confide in thy beauty, and playedst the harlot because of thy renown, and pouredst out thy whoredoms on every one that passed by: his it was.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 31:11-31
The Virtuous Woman. 10 Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies. 11 The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil. 12 She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life. 13 She seeketh wool, and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands. 14 She is like the merchants' ships; she bringeth her food from afar. 15 She riseth also while it is yet night, and giveth meat to her household, and a portion to her maidens. 16 She considereth a field,… Read the whole commentary →