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Proverbs 31:11

Her husband depends on her. He will never be poor.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Commerce;   Economics;   Poetry;   Wife;   Women;   Thompson Chain Reference - Wives;   Woman;   Women;   The Topic Concordance - Charity;   Praise;   Speech/communication;   Virtue;   Women;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Wives;   Woman;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Lemuel;   Letters;   Proverb, the Book of;   Woman;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Wife;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Beauty;   Woman;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Poetry;   Wife;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Education;   Lemuel;   Marriage;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Acrostic;   Proverbs, Book of;   Wisdom and Wise Men;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Acrostic;   Ethics;   Marriage;   Massa;   Song of Songs;   Trade and Commerce;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Home (2);   Parents (2);   Sirach;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Poetry;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Writing;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Lack;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Acrostics;   Monogamy;   Poetry;  

Devotionals:

- Today's Word from Skip Moen - Devotion for April 22;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
The heart of her husband trusts in her,and he will not lack anything good.
Hebrew Names Version
The heart of her husband trusts in her. He shall have no lack of gain.
King James Version
The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil.
English Standard Version
The heart of her husband trusts in her, and he will have no lack of gain.
New American Standard Bible
The heart of her husband trusts in her, And he will have no lack of gain.
New Century Version
Her husband trusts her completely. With her, he has everything he needs.
Amplified Bible
The heart of her husband trusts in her [with secure confidence], And he will have no lack of gain.
World English Bible
The heart of her husband trusts in her. He shall have no lack of gain.
Geneva Bible (1587)
The heart of her husbande trusteth in her, and he shall haue no neede of spoyle.
Legacy Standard Bible
The heart of her husband trusts in her,And he will have no lack of gain.
Berean Standard Bible
The heart of her husband trusts in her, and he will lack nothing of value.
Contemporary English Version
Her husband depends on her, and she never lets him down.
Complete Jewish Bible
ב Her husband trusts her from his heart, and she will prove a great asset to him.
Darby Translation
The heart of her husband confideth in her, and he shall have no lack of spoil.
George Lamsa Translation
The heart of her husband safely trusts in her, and her food supplies never diminish.
Good News Translation
Her husband puts his confidence in her, and he will never be poor.
Lexham English Bible
The heart of her husband trusts in her, and gain he will not lack.
Literal Translation
The heart of her husband trusts in her, so that he has no lack of gain.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The herte of hir husbande maye safely trust in her, so that he shal haue no nede of spoyles.
American Standard Version
The heart of her husband trusteth in her, And he shall have no lack of gain.
Bible in Basic English
The heart of her husband has faith in her, and he will have profit in full measure.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, and he hath no lack of gain.
King James Version (1611)
The heart of her husband doeth safely trust in her, so that he shall haue no need of spoile.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
The heart of her husbande may safely trust in her, so that he shall fall into no pouertie.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
The heart of her husband trusts in her: such a one shall stand in no need of fine spoils.
English Revised Version
The heart of her husband trusteth in her, and he shall have no lack of gain.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
The herte of hir hosebond tristith in hir; and sche schal not haue nede to spuylis.
Update Bible Version
The heart of her husband trusts in her, And he shall have no lack of gain.
Webster's Bible Translation
The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil.
New English Translation
The heart of her husband has confidence in her, and he has no lack of gain.
New King James Version
The heart of her husband safely trusts her; So he will have no lack of gain.
New Living Translation
Her husband can trust her, and she will greatly enrich his life.
New Life Bible
The heart of her husband trusts in her, and he will never stop getting good things.
New Revised Standard
The heart of her husband trusts in her, and he will have no lack of gain.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
The heart of her husband, trusteth her, and, gain, he shall not lack:
Douay-Rheims Bible
The heart of her husband trusteth in her, and he shall have no need of spoils.
Revised Standard Version
The heart of her husband trusts in her, and he will have no lack of gain.
Young's Literal Translation
The heart of her husband hath trusted in her, And spoil he lacketh not.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
The heart of her husband trusts in her, And he will have no lack of gain.

Contextual Overview

10 How hard it is to find the perfect wife. She is worth far more than jewels. 11 Her husband depends on her. He will never be poor. 12 She does good for her husband all her life. She never causes him trouble. 13 She is always gathering wool and flax and enjoys making things with her hands. 14 She is like a ship from a faraway place. She brings home food from everywhere. 15 She wakes up early in the morning, cooks food for her family, and gives the servants their share. 16 She looks at land and buys it. She uses the money she has earned and plants a vineyard. 17 She works very hard. She is strong and able to do all her work. 18 She works late into the night to make sure her business earns a profit. 19 She makes her own thread and weaves her own cloth.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

2 Kings 4:9, 2 Kings 4:10, 2 Kings 4:22, 2 Kings 4:23, 1 Peter 3:1-7

Reciprocal: Genesis 39:6 - save Ruth 4:10 - have I 1 Samuel 25:19 - But

Cross-References

Genesis 18:1
Later, the Lord again appeared to Abraham near the oak trees of Mamre. It was the hottest part of the day, and Abraham was sitting at the door of his tent.
Genesis 18:17
The Lord said to himself, "Should I tell Abraham what I am going to do now?
Genesis 22:1
After these things God decided to test Abraham's faith. God said to him, "Abraham!" And he said, "Yes!"
Genesis 31:5
He said to them, "I have noticed that your father is not as friendly with me as he used to be. But the God of my father has been with me.
Genesis 31:7
But he cheated me. He has changed my pay ten times. But during all this time, God protected me from all of Laban's tricks.
Genesis 31:13
I am the God who came to you at Bethel, and there you made an altar, poured olive oil on it, and made a promise to me. Now I want you to be ready to go back to the country where you were born.'"
Genesis 31:15
He treated us like strangers. He sold us to you, and then he spent all the money that should have been ours.
Genesis 31:16
God took all this wealth from our father, and now it belongs to us and our children. So you should do whatever God told you to do."
Exodus 3:4
The Lord saw Moses was coming to look at the bush. So he called to him from the bush. He said, "Moses, Moses!" Moses said, "Yes, Lord."
1 Samuel 3:4
The Lord called Samuel, and Samuel answered, "Here I am."

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her,.... Christ her Maker is her husband, who has asked her in marriage, and has betrothed her to himself in righteousness; and of whose chaste love, and inviolable attachment to him, he is fully satisfied, as well as of her fidelity in keeping what he commits unto her; he trusts her with his Gospel and ordinances, which she faithfully retains and observes; and with his children born in her, who are nursed up at her side, to whom she gives the breasts of ordinances, bears them on her sides, and dandles them on her knees, as a tender and careful mother does,

Isaiah 60:4;

so that he shall have no need of spoil; he shall never want any; by means of the word preached in her, prey and spoil shall be taken out of the hands of the mighty, and he shall divide the spoil with them; or have souls snatched out of the hands of Satan, and translated into his kingdom, Isaiah 53:12. The Septuagint version understands it of the virtuous woman, and not of her husband; "such an one as she shall not want good spoils"; now, prey or spoil sometimes signifies food, as in

Psalms 111:5; and so Jarchi interprets it here; and then the sense is, she shall not want spiritual provisions; she shall have plenty of them from her husband, who reposes such confidence in her; or shall not want excellent treasures, as the Arabic version, which also understands it of her; such are the word and ordinances, and particularly precious promises, which are more rejoicing than a great spoil, Psalms 119:162; and so Ambrose interprets y it of the church, who needs no spoils because she abounds with them, even with the spoils of the world, and of the devil.

y Enarrat. in loc. p. 1099. tom. 2.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

No need of spoil - Better, no lack of gain, lack of honest gain.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 31:11. The heart of her husband

3. She is an unspotted wife. The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her - he knows she will take care that a proper provision is made for his household, and will not waste any thing. He has no need for spoil - he is not obliged to go out on predatory excursions, to provide for his family, at the expense of the neighbouring tribes.


 
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