Proverbs 30:23
what a woman who is hated does when she gets married, and what a female servant does when she becomes the boss instead of her mistress.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
For an odious woman when she is married; and an handmaid that is heir to her mistress.
In Context
22What a slave does who becomes a king, a foolish person eating too much food,
24There are four animals on the earth that are small, but they are very wise:
Cross References
Proverbs 19:13Foolish children can cause disasters to happen to their parents. A wife who constantly ◄nags/quarrels with► her husband is as annoying as water that continually drips [MET].
Proverbs 21:19It is better to live alone in a desert than to live with a wife who is always nagging and complaining.
Proverbs 29:21If someone gives his servants everything that they want, starting from when they are young, some day those servants will take from him everything that he owns.
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 →