Proverbs 31:30
Charms are false, and woman's beauty is vain: for it is a wise woman that is blessed, and let her praise the fear of the Lord.
Brenton Septuagint
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
31Give her of the fruit of her lips; and let her husband be praised in the gates.
Cross References
Exodus 1:17But the midwives feared God, and did not as the king of Egypt appointed them; and they saved the male children alive.
Proverbs 1:7The fear of the Lord is the + 1:7 Or, sum, or, top.beginning of wisdom; and there is good understanding to all that practise it: and piety toward God is the beginning of discernment; but the ungodly will set at nought wisdom and instruction.
Proverbs 8:13The fear of the Lord hates unrighteousness, and insolence, and pride, and the ways of wicked men; and I hate the perverse ways of bad men.
Ecclesiastes 7:18It is well for thee to hold fast by this; also by this defile not thine hand: for to them that fear God all things shall come forth well.
Ezekiel 16:15Thou didst trust in thy beauty, and didst go a-whoring because of thy renown, and didst pour out thy fornication on every passer by.
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 →