Proverbs 31:17

Amplified Bible

She equips herself with strength [spiritual, mental, and physical fitness for her God-given task] And makes her arms strong.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
She draws on her strengthand reveals that her arms are strong.

Hebrew Names Version
She girds her loins with strength, And makes her arms strong.

King James Version
She girdeth her loins with strength, and strengtheneth her arms.

English Standard Version
She dresses herself with strength and makes her arms strong.

New American Standard Bible
She surrounds her waist with strength And makes her arms strong.

New Century Version
She does her work with energy, and her arms are strong.

World English Bible
She girds her loins with strength, And makes her arms strong.

Geneva Bible (1587)
She girdeth her loynes with strength, and strengtheneth her armes.

Legacy Standard Bible
She girds herself with strengthAnd makes her arms strong.

Berean Standard Bible
She girds herself with strength and shows that her arms are strong.

Contemporary English Version
and she always works hard.

Complete Jewish Bible
ח She gathers her strength around her and throws herself into her work.

Darby Translation
She girdeth her loins with strength, and maketh strong her arms.

Easy-to-Read Version
She works very hard. She is strong and able to do all her work.

George Lamsa Translation
She girds her loins with strength, and strengthens her arms.

Good News Translation
She is a hard worker, strong and industrious.

Lexham English Bible
She girds her waist in strength, and makes her arms strong.

Literal Translation
She has girded her loins with strength, and has made her arms strong.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
She gyrdeth hir loynes with strength, and courageth hir armes.

American Standard Version
She girdeth her loins with strength, And maketh strong her arms.

Bible in Basic English
She puts a band of strength round her, and makes her arms strong.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
She girdeth her loins with strength, and maketh strong her arms.

King James Version (1611)
She girdeth her loynes with strength, and strengtheneth her armes.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
She girdeth her loynes with strength, and fortifieth her armes.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
She strongly girds her loins, and strengthens her arms for work.

English Revised Version
She girdeth her loins with strength, and maketh strong her arms.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Sche girde hir leendis with strengthe, and made strong hir arm.

Update Bible Version
She girds her loins with strength, And makes her arms strong.

Webster's Bible Translation
She girdeth her loins with strength, and strengtheneth her arms.

New English Translation
She begins her work vigorously, and she strengthens her arms.

New King James Version
She girds herself with strength, And strengthens her arms.

New Living Translation
She is energetic and strong, a hard worker.

New Life Bible
She makes herself ready with strength, and makes her arms strong.

New Revised Standard
She girds herself with strength, and makes her arms strong.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
She girdeth, with strength her loins, and putteth vigour into her arms:

Douay-Rheims Bible
She hath girded her loins with strength, and hath strengthened her arm.

Revised Standard Version
She girds her loins with strength and makes her arms strong.

Young's Literal Translation
She hath girded with might her loins, And doth strengthen her arms.

New American Standard Bible (1995)
She girds herself with strength And makes her arms strong.

Contextual Overview

¹⁰An excellent woman [one who is spiritual, capable, intelligent, and virtuous], who is he who can find her? Her value is more precious than jewels and her worth is far above rubies or pearls. ¹¹The heart of her husband trusts in her [with secure confidence], And he will have no lack of gain. ¹²She comforts, encourages, and does him only good and not evil All the days of her life. ¹³She looks for wool and flax And works with willing hands in delight. ¹⁴She is like the merchant ships [abounding with treasure]; She brings her [household's] food from far away. ¹⁵She rises also while it is still night And gives food to her household And assigns tasks to her maids. ¹⁶She considers a field before she buys or accepts it [expanding her business prudently]; With her profits she plants fruitful vines in her vineyard. ¹⁷She equips herself with strength [spiritual, mental, and physical fitness for her God-given task] And makes her arms strong.¹⁸She sees that her gain is good; Her lamp does not go out, but it burns continually through the night [she is prepared for whatever lies ahead]. ¹⁹She stretches out her hands to the distaff, And her hands hold the spindle [as she spins wool into thread for clothing].

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

girdeth: 1 Kings 18:46, 2 Kings 4:29, Job 38:3, Luke 12:35, Ephesians 6:10, Ephesians 6:14, 1 Peter 1:13

strengtheneth: Genesis 49:24, Isaiah 44:12, Hosea 7:15

Cross-References

Genesis 24:10
Then the servant took ten of his master's camels, and set out, taking some of his master's good things with him; so he got up and journeyed to Mesopotamia [between the Tigris and the Euphrates Rivers], to the city of Nahor [the home of Abraham's brother].

Genesis 24:61
Then Rebekah and her attendants stood, and they mounted camels and followed the man. So the servant took Rebekah and went on his way.

1 Samuel 30:17
Then David [and his men] struck them down [in battle] from twilight until the evening of the next day; and not a man of them escaped, except four hundred young men who rode camels and fled.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

She girdeth her loins with strength,.... Showing her readiness to every good work; and with what cheerfulness, spirit, and resolution, she set about it, and with what dispatch and expedition she performed it: the allusion is to the girding and tucking up of long garments, wore in the eastern countries, when any work was set about in earnest, which required dispatch; see Luke 17:8; the strength of creatures being in their loins, Job 40:16; the loins are sometimes put for strength, as in Plautus r; and the sense is much the same with what follows;

and strengtheneth her arms; does all she finds to do with all her might and main, as the church does; not in her own strength, but in the strength of Christ; to whom she seeks for it, and in whose strength she goes forth about her business; by whom the arms of her hands are made strong, even by the mighty God of Jacob; and because she thus applies to him for it, she is said to do it herself, Genesis 49:24; here she plays the man, and acts the manly part, 1 Corinthians 16:13.

r "Lumbos defractos velim", Stichus, Act. 2. Sc. 1. v. 37.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 31:17. She girdeth her loins with strength —

7. She takes care of her own health and strength, not only by means of useful labour, but by healthy exercise. She avoids what might enervate her body, or soften her mind-she is ever active, and girt ready for every necessary exercise. Her loins are firm, and her arms strong.