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Proverbs 31:15
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She rises while it is still nightand provides food for her householdand portions for her female servants.
She rises also while it is yet night, Gives food to her household, And portions for her servant girls.
She rises while it is yet night and provides food for her household and portions for her maidens.
And she rises while it is still night And gives food to her household, And portions to her attendants.
She gets up while it is still dark and prepares food for her family and feeds her servant girls.
She rises also while it is still night And gives food to her household And assigns tasks to her maids.
She rises also while it is yet night, Gives food to her household, And their task to her servant girls.
And she riseth, whiles it is yet night: and giueth the portion to her houshold, and the ordinarie to her maides.
And she rises while it is still night,And gives food to her householdAnd a portion to her young women.
She rises while it is still night to provide food for her household and portions for her maidservants.
She gets up before daylight to prepare food for her family and for her servants.
ו It's still dark when she rises to give food to her household and orders to the young women serving her.
And she riseth while it is yet night, and giveth meat to her household, and the day's work to her maidens.
She wakes up early in the morning, cooks food for her family, and gives the servants their share.
She rises also while it is yet night, and gives food to her household and work to her maids.
She gets up before daylight to prepare food for her family and to tell her servant women what to do.
And she arises while it is still night, and gives food to her household, and tasks to her servant girls.
She also rises while it is still night and gives game to her household, and a portion to her maidens.
She is vp in ye night season, to prouyde meate for hir housholde, & foode for hir maydens.
She riseth also while it is yet night, And giveth food to her household, And their task to her maidens.
She gets up while it is still night, and gives meat to her family, and their food to her servant-girls.
She riseth also while it is yet night, and giveth food to her household, and a portion to her maidens.
Shee riseth also while it is yet night, and giueth meate to her household, and a portion to her maydens.
She is vp in the nyght season, to prouide meate for her housholde, and foode for her maydens.
And she rises by night, and gives food to her household, and appointed tasks to her maidens.
She riseth also while it is yet night, and giveth meat to her household, and their task to her maidens.
And sche roos bi nyyt, and yaf prey to hir meyneals, and metis to hir handmaidis.
She rises also while it is yet night, And gives food to her household, And their task to her maidens.
She riseth also while it is yet night, and giveth food to her household, and a portion to her maidens.
She also gets up while it is still night, and provides food for her household and a portion to her female servants.
She also rises while it is yet night, And provides food for her household, And a portion for her maidservants.
She gets up before dawn to prepare breakfast for her household and plan the day's work for her servant girls.
She rises while it is still night and makes food for all those in her house. She gives work for the young women to do.
She rises while it is still night and provides food for her household and tasks for her servant-girls.
And she riseth, while yet it is night, and giveth food to her household, and a task to her maidens:
And she hath risen in the night, and given a prey to her household, and victuals to her maidens.
She rises while it is yet night and provides food for her household and tasks for her maidens.
Yea, she riseth while yet night, And giveth food to her household, And a portion to her damsels.
She rises also while it is still night And gives food to her household And portions to her maidens.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
riseth: Joshua 3:1, 2 Chronicles 36:15, Psalms 119:147, Psalms 119:148, Ecclesiastes 9:10, Mark 1:35, Romans 12:11
and giveth: Matthew 24:25, Luke 12:42
Reciprocal: Psalms 127:2 - rise up
Cross-References
Give me my wives and my children, for whom I have served thee, and let me go: for thou knowest my service which I have done thee.
And your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me.
And the angel of God spake unto me in a dream, saying, Jacob: And I said, Here am I.
Are we not counted of him strangers? for he hath sold us, and hath quite devoured also our money.
And Jacob stole away unawares to Laban the Syrian, in that he told him not that he fled.
Wherefore didst thou flee away secretly, and steal away from me; and didst not tell me, that I might have sent thee away with mirth, and with songs, with tabret, and with harp?
And now, though thou wouldest needs be gone, because thou sore longedst after thy father's house, yet wherefore hast thou stolen my gods?
Thus have I been twenty years in thy house; I served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy cattle: and thou hast changed my wages ten times.
And I said unto them, We after our ability have redeemed our brethren the Jews, which were sold unto the heathen; and will ye even sell your brethren? or shall they be sold unto us? Then held they their peace, and found nothing to answer.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
She riseth also while it is yet night,.... That is, before the ascent of the morning, as Aben Ezra explains it, before break of day; a great while before day, as Christ is said to rise to pray, Mark 1:35; while it was yet dark; so the church here: which shows her affection for her family, her care of her children, and fervent zeal for her husband's interest and good; a different frame of spirit this from that of hers in Song of Solomon 5:2;
and giveth meat to her household, and a portion to her maidens; in allusion to a daily stated allowance q of food given to such; and spiritually may be meant, by her "household" or family, the same with the family of Christ, that is named of himself, which consists of various persons, fathers, young men, and children; and by her "maidens" the ministers of the word; see Proverbs 9:3; who are stewards in the family, and have the food for it put into their hands to dispense; it is by these the church gives meat to her household feeds them with knowledge and understanding, with the wholesome words of Christ, with the good doctrines of the Gospel; these have a certain portion given them, and they rightly cut and divide the word of truth, and give to everyone their portion of meat in due season, according to their age and circumstances; milk indeed to babes and meat to strong men; see
Luke 12:42. The Targum renders the word for "portion [by] service": understanding not a portion of food, but of work, a task set them, and so the word is used in Exodus 5:14. The Septuagint, Syriac, and Arabic versions, render it, "works", which may be very well applied to the work and service of the Gospel ministry, and the several parts of it.
q "Gauldetque diurnos, ut famulae, praebere cibos", Claudian. de Bello Gild. v. 71, 72.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
A portion to her maidens - The daily task assigned to each at the same time as the daily food. Compare Proverbs 30:8; Exodus 5:14.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Proverbs 31:15. She riseth also while it is yet night —
4. She is an economist of time; and when the nights are long, and the days short, her family not only spend a part of the evening after sunset in domestic labour, but they all arise before daylight, and prepare the day's food, that they may not have their labour interrupted. To those who are going to the fields, and to the flocks, she gives the food necessary for the day: טרף teref, prey, a term taken from hunting, the object of which was, the supplying their natural wants: hence applied to daily food. Proverbs 30:8. And to the women who are to be employed within, she gives חק chok, the task - the kind of work they are to do, the materials out of which they are to form it, and the quantity she expects from each. Thus all the servants are settled: their food, work, and tasks appointed. Every thing is done orderly.
