the Week of Proper 21 / Ordinary 26
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Proverbs 31:14
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She is like merchant ships;She brings her food from afar.
She is like merchant ships; She brings her food from afar.
She is like a marchauntes ship, that bryngeth her vittayles from a farre.
She is like the merchants' ships: she bringeth her food from afar;
She is like the merchant ships, She brings her food from afar.
She is like the merchant ships, she brings in her food from afar.
She is like a ship from a faraway place. She brings home food from everywhere.
She is like the merchant ships. She brings her bread from afar.
She is like the merchants ships, she bringeth her food from afarre.
She is like the merchants' ships; she bringeth her food from afar.
She is like a marchauntes shippe, that bryngeth hir vytayles from farre.
She is like the merchant ships [abounding with treasure]; She brings her [household's] food from far away.
She is like the merchant-ships; She bringeth her bread from afar.
She is like the trading-ships, getting food from far away.
She is like the merchant-ships; She brings her bread from far.
She is like the merchant's ships; she bringeth her food from afar.
She is like the merchant ships; she brings her food from afar.
She is like a sailing ship that brings food from across the sea.
ה She is like those merchant vessels, bringing her food from far away.
She is like the shippes of marchants: shee bringeth her foode from afarre.
She is like the merchants ship, she brings her merchandise from afar.
She is like the merchant ships. She brings her bread from afar.
She is like the merchant-ships; she bringeth her food from afar.
She is like ships that trade. She brings her food from far away.
She is like a ship trading from a distance: so she procures her livelihood.
She is like the merchant-ships; she bringeth her food from afar.
She is like the merchant ships, bringing her food from afar.
She is like the ships of the merchant, she brings her food from far away.
She is like the ships of the merchant, from afar, she bringeth in her food;
She is like the merchant’s ship, she bringeth her bread from afar.
She is like the ships of a merchant; from far off she brings her food;
She is like the ships of the merchant; she brings her food from afar.
She is like merchant ships; She brings her food from afar.
She is like a trader's ship, bringing food from far away.
She brings home food from out-of-the-way places, as merchant ships do.
She is like the merchant ships, bringing her food from far away.
Sche is maad as the schip of a marchaunt, that berith his breed fro fer.
She is like the ships of the merchant, she brings her food from afar.
She hath been as ships of the merchant, From afar she bringeth in her bread.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Proverbs 31:24, 1 Kings 9:26-28, 2 Chronicles 9:10, Ezekiel 27:3-36
Cross-References
This explains why a man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, and the two are united into one.
(Laban had given Leah a servant, Zilpah, to be her maid.)
(Laban gave Rachel a servant, Bilhah, to be her maid.)
Then the elders and all the people standing in the gate replied, "We are witnesses! May the Lord make this woman who is coming into your home like Rachel and Leah, from whom all the nation of Israel descended! May you prosper in Ephrathah and be famous in Bethlehem.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
She is like the merchant ships,.... Not like a single one, but like a navy of them, that cross the seas, go to foreign parts, and come back laden with rich goods: so the church of Christ, and her true members, like ships of burden, trade to heaven, by prayer and other religious exercises, and return with the riches of grace and mercy, to help them in time of need; and though they have often difficult and dangerous passages, are tossed with tempests, and covered with billows; yet, Christ being their pilot, faith their sail, and hope their anchor, they weather the seas, ride out all storms, and come safe home with their merchandise;
she bringeth her food from afar: from a far country, from Egypt particularly, from whence corn for bread, as the word here used signifies, was fetched and carried in ships to divers parts of the world p; to which the allusion may be: in a spiritual sense, it may mean that the church brings her food or bread from heaven, the good land afar off; where God her father, Christ her husband, and her friends the angels are; with whom she carries on a correspondence, and from hence she has her food for her family; not from below, on earth; not dust, the serpent's food; nor ashes, on which a deceitful heart feeds; nor husks, which swine eat; but the corn of heaven, angels' food, the hidden and heavenly manna; the bread of life, which comes down from heaven; the Gospel of the grace of God, the good news from a far country.
p Bacchylides spud Athenaei Deipnosoph. l. 2. c. 3. p. 39.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The comparison points to the enlarged commerce of the Israelites consequent on their contact with the Phoenicians under David and Solomon; compare Proverbs 31:24.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Proverbs 31:14. She is like the merchants' ships —
3. She acts like merchants. If she buy any thing for her household, she sells sufficient of her own manufactures to pay for it; if she imports, she exports: and she sends articles of her own manufacturing or produce to distant countries; she traffics with the neighbouring tribes.
