Proverbs 30:23
or if a maidservant should cast out her own mistress; and if a hateful woman should marry a good man.
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
For an odious woman when she is married; and an handmaid that is heir to her mistress.
In Context
22if a servant reign; or a fool be filled with food;
24And there are four very little things upon the earth, but these are wiser than the wise:
Cross References
Proverbs 19:13A foolish son is a disgrace to his father: vows paid out of the hire of a harlot are not pure.
Proverbs 21:19It is better to dwell in a wilderness than with a quarrelsome and talkative and passionate woman.
Proverbs 29:21He that lives wantonly from a child, shall be a servant, and in the end shall grieve over himself.
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 →