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Tuesday, October 22nd, 2024
the Week of Proper 24 / Ordinary 29
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Proverbs 30:23

under an unloved woman who is married, and under a female servant who dispossesses her mistress.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Family;   Riddle;   Servant;   Wife;   Women;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Proverb, the Book of;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Pardon;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Proverbs, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Agur;   Jakeh;   Massa;   Proverb;   Proverbs, Book of;   Slave, Slavery;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Proverbs, Book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Handmaid;   Heir;   Mistress;  

Parallel Translations

New Living Translation
a bitter woman who finally gets a husband, a servant girl who supplants her mistress.
Update Bible Version
For an odious woman when she is married; And a female slave when she takes the place of her mistress.
New Century Version
a hated woman who gets married, and a maid who replaces her mistress.
Webster's Bible Translation
For an odious [woman] when she is married; and a handmaid that is heir to her mistress.
World English Bible
For an unloved woman when she is married; And a handmaid who is heir to her mistress.
Amplified Bible
Under an unloved woman when she gets married, And under a maidservant when she supplants her mistress.
English Standard Version
an unloved woman when she gets a husband, and a maidservant when she displaces her mistress.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
bi an hateful womman, whanne sche is takun in matrymonye; and bi an handmaide, whanne sche is eir of hir ladi.
English Revised Version
For an odious woman when she is married; and an handmaid that is heir to her mistress.
Berean Standard Bible
an unloved woman who marries, and a maidservant who supplants her mistress.
Contemporary English Version
a hateful woman who finds a husband, and a slave who takes the place of the woman who owns her.
American Standard Version
For an odious woman when she is married; And a handmaid that is heir to her mistress.
Bible in Basic English
A hated woman when she is married; and a servant-girl who takes the place of her master's wife.
Complete Jewish Bible
a hated [wife] when her husband takes her [back], and a slave-girl who inherits from her mistress.
Darby Translation
under an odious [woman] when she is married, and a handmaid when she is heir to her mistress.
Easy-to-Read Version
a woman whose husband hated her but still married her, and a servant girl who becomes ruler over the woman she serves.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
For an odious woman when she is married; and a handmaid that is heir to her mistress.
King James Version (1611)
For an odious woman when shee is married, and an handmayd that is heire to her mistresse.
New Life Bible
under a woman who is not loved when she gets a husband, and under a woman servant when she takes the place of the woman of the house.
New Revised Standard
an unloved woman when she gets a husband, and a maid when she succeeds her mistress.
Geneva Bible (1587)
For the hatefull woman, when she is married, & for a handmaid that is heire to her mistres.
George Lamsa Translation
Under an odious woman when she is married; and under a maidservant who ousts her mistress.
Good News Translation
a hateful woman who gets married, and a servant woman who takes the place of her mistress.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Under a hateful woman, when she is married, and a handmaid when she driveth out her mistress.
Douay-Rheims Bible
By an odious woman when she is married: and by a bondwoman when she is heir to her mistress.
Revised Standard Version
an unloved woman when she gets a husband, and a maid when she succeeds her mistress.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
A spiteful woman when she is maried, and an handmayde that is heire to her maistresse.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
He that reproves a man’s ways shall have more favour than he that flatters with the tongue.
Christian Standard Bible®
an unloved woman when she marries,and a servant girl when she ousts her queen.
Hebrew Names Version
For an unloved woman when she is married; And a handmaid who is heir to her mistress.
King James Version
For an odious woman when she is married; and an handmaid that is heir to her mistress.
Lexham English Bible
under an unloved woman when she gets married, and a maid when she succeeds her mistress.
Literal Translation
under a hated one when she is married, under a slave-girl when she is heir to her mistress.
Young's Literal Translation
For a hated one when she ruleth, And a maid-servant when she succeedeth her mistress.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
thorow an ydle houswife, & thorow an handmayden yt is heyre to hir mastres.
New American Standard Bible
Under an unloved woman when she gets a husband, And a female servant when she dispossesses her mistress.
New King James Version
A hateful woman when she is married, And a maidservant who succeeds her mistress.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Under an unloved woman when she gets a husband, And a maidservant when she supplants her mistress.
Legacy Standard Bible
Under an unloved woman when she gets a husband,And a servant‑girl when she supplants her mistress.

Contextual Overview

18 There are three things that are too wonderful for me, four that I do not understand: 19 the way of an eagle in the sky, the way of a snake on a rock, the way of a ship in the sea, and the way of a man with a woman. 20 This is the way of an adulterous woman: she eats and wipes her mouth and says, "I have not done wrong." 21 Under three things the earth trembles, and under four things it cannot bear up: 22 under a servant who becomes king, under a fool who is stuffed with food, 23 under an unloved woman who is married, and under a female servant who dispossesses her mistress.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

an odious: Proverbs 19:13, Proverbs 21:9, Proverbs 21:19, Proverbs 27:15

an handmaid: Proverbs 29:21

Reciprocal: Genesis 15:3 - born Genesis 16:4 - her mistress

Cross-References

Genesis 29:31
When the Lord saw that Leah was unloved, he enabled her to become pregnant while Rachel remained childless.
Genesis 30:5
Bilhah became pregnant and gave Jacob a son.
Genesis 30:6
Then Rachel said, "God has vindicated me. He has responded to my prayer and given me a son." That is why she named him Dan.
Isaiah 4:1
Seven women will grab hold of one man at that time. They will say, "We will provide our own food, we will provide our own clothes; but let us belong to you— take away our shame!"
Luke 1:21
Now the people were waiting for Zechariah, and they began to wonder why he was delayed in the holy place.
Luke 1:25
"This is what the Lord has done for me at the time when he has been gracious to me, to take away my disgrace among people."
Luke 1:27
to a virgin engaged to a man whose name was Joseph, a descendant of David, and the virgin's name was Mary.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For an odious [woman], when she is married,.... Odious for her person, her ugliness, and the deformity of her body; or rather for the ill qualities of her mind, which, while single, she endeavours to conceal, but, being married, hides them no longer; but becomes imperious, proud, scornful, and malicious, and behaves in an ill natured way to her husband and all about her, to such a degree, that there is no bearing the place where she is;

and an handmaid, that is heir to her mistress; that has got so much into her affections that she leaves all she has to her when she dies, which makes her insufferably proud and vain; or she marries her master after the death of her mistress, and so coming into her place enjoys all she had, but only her wisdom and humility; which being wanting, she behaves in such a manner as to make the whole family uneasy. This might be exemplified in the case of Hagar, the bondmaid of Sarah, a type of those that are under the law of works, and seek the inheritance by it; and who trust in themselves that they are righteous, and despise others, Genesis 16:4.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Odious woman - One in whom there is nothing loveable. Marriage, which to most women is the state in which they find scope for their highest qualities, becomes to her only a sphere in which to make herself and others miserable.


 
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