Proverbs 30:23
For a hated one when she rules, || And a maidservant when she succeeds her mistress.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
For an odious woman when she is married; and an handmaid that is heir to her mistress.
In Context
22For a servant when he reigns, || And a fool when he is satisfied with bread,
24Four [are] little ones of earth, || And they are made wiser than the wise:
Cross References
Proverbs 19:13A foolish son [is] a calamity to his father, || And the contentions of a wife [are] a continual dropping.
Proverbs 21:19Better to dwell in a wilderness land, || Than [with] a woman of contentions and anger.
Proverbs 29:21Whoever is bringing up his servant delicately, from youth, || [At] his latter end he is also continuator.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 30:19-24
Four Things Little and Wise. 18 There be three things which are too wonderful for me, yea, four which I know not: 19 The way of an eagle in the air; the way of a serpent upon a rock; the way of a ship in the midst of the sea; and the way of a man with a maid. 20 Such is the way of an adulterous woman; she eateth, and wipeth her mouth, and saith, I have done no wickedness. 21 For three things the earth is disquieted, and for four which it cannot bear: 22 For a servant when he reigneth; and a fool when he is filled… Read the whole commentary →