Proverbs 30:23

by an hateful woman, when she is taken in matrimony; and by an handmaid, when she is heir of her lady, (or and by a servantess, when she is her lady’s heir).

Wycliffe Modern Spelling

In The King James Version

For an odious woman when she is married; and an handmaid that is heir to her mistress.

In Context

22by a servant, when he reigneth; by a fool, when he is filled with meat, (or by a fool, when he is filled full with food);

24Four [things] be the least things of [the] earth, and those be wiser than wise men;

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Cross References

Proverbs 19:13The sorrow of the father is a fond son; and roofs dropping continually is a woman full of chiding. (A father’s sorrow (is) a foolish son; and a woman full of arguments, (or of bickering, is) like a roof continually dripping water.)

Proverbs 21:19It is better to dwell in a desert land, than with a woman full of chiding, and wrathful.

Proverbs 29:21He that nourisheth his servant delicately from childhood, shall find him (a) rebel afterward. (He who delicately careth for his servant from childhood, shall find him to be rebellious later.)

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 →

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