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Proverbs 31:29
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"Many daughters have done excellently,But you have gone above them all."
"Many daughters have done nobly, But you excel them all."
Many daughters [there be that] gather riches together: but thou goest aboue them all.
Many daughters have done worthily, but thou excellest them all.
"Many daughters have done well, But you excel them all."
Many are the daughters who act with virtue, but you rise above them all!
"There are many good women, but you are the best."
Many daughters haue done vertuously, but thou excellest them all.
Many daughters have done virtuously, but thou excellest them all.
Many daughters there be yt gather riches together, but thou goest aboue the all.
"Many daughters have done nobly, and well [with the strength of character that is steadfast in goodness], But you excel them all."
Many daughters have done worthily, But thou excellest them all.
Unnumbered women have done well, but you are better than all of them.
Many daughters have done worthily, But you excel them all.
Many daughters have done virtuously, but thou excellest them all.
"Many daughters have done valiantly, but you surpass them all!"
"There are many good women, but you are the best!"
ר "Many women have done wonderful things, but you surpass them all!"
Many daughters haue done vertuously: but thou surmountest them all.
Many daughters have become rich, but you have excelled them all.
"Many women do noble things, But you excel them all."
'Many daughters have done valiantly, but thou excellest them all.'
"There are many virtuous and capable women in the world, but you surpass them all!"
"Many daughters have done well, but you have done better than all of them."
Many daughters have obtained wealth, many have wrought valiantly; but thou hast exceeded, thou hast surpassed all.
Many daughters have done virtuously, but thou excellest them all.
"Many daughters have done noble things, but you surpass them all!"
"Many women have done excellently, but you surpass them all."
Many daughters, have done virtuously, but, thou, excellest them all!
Many daughters have gathered together riches: thou hast surpassed them all.
"Many daughters have done excellence, but you surpass all of them."
"Many women have done excellently, but you surpass them all."
"Many daughters have done nobly, But you excel them all."
saying, "There are many fine women, but you are better than all of them."
He says, "Many women are good wives, but you are the best of them all."
"Many women are capable, but you surpass them all!"
Many douytris gaderiden richessis; thou passidist alle.
"Many women have done excellently, but you surpass them all."
`Many [are] the daughters who have done worthily, Thou hast gone up above them all.'
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
done virtuously: or, gotten riches
thou: Song of Solomon 6:8, Song of Solomon 6:9, Ephesians 5:27
Reciprocal: Ruth 3:11 - city Luke 1:28 - blessed Philippians 2:20 - I have Philippians 4:8 - virtue 2 Peter 1:3 - virtue
Cross-References
Behold, Yahweh stood above it, and said, "I am Yahweh, the God of Abraham your father, and the God of Isaac. The land whereon you lie, to you will I give it, and to your seed.
Jacob saw the expression on Laban's face, and, behold, it was not toward him as before.
Yahweh said to Jacob, "Return to the land of your fathers, and to your relatives, and I will be with you."
It happened at the time that the flock conceive, that I lifted up my eyes, and saw in a dream, and behold, the male goats which leaped on the flock were streaked, speckled, and grizzled.
The angel of God said to me in the dream, 'Jacob,' and I said, 'Here I am.'
God came to Laban, the Syrian, in a dream of the night, and said to him, "Take heed to yourself that you don't speak to Jacob either good or bad."
These twenty years have I been with you. Your ewes and your female goats have not cast their young, and I haven't eaten the rams of your flocks.
That which was torn of animals, I didn't bring to you. I bore the loss of it. Of my hand you required it, whether stolen by day or stolen by night.
Unless the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely now you would have sent me away empty. God has seen my affliction and the labor of my hands, and rebuked you last night."
The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge between us." Then Jacob swore by the fear of his father, Isaac.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Many daughters have done virtuously,.... This, according to Aben Ezra and Gersom, is what was said by her husband and children, and which seems to be right; especially they may be thought to be the words of her husband. By these "daughters" may be meant false churches, such as the church of Rome and her daughters, who is the mother of harlots,
Revelation 17:17. These are "many", when the true church of Christ is but one, to whom she is opposed, Song of Solomon 6:8. These may do many virtuous things externally; may make a great show of religion and devotion; may have a form of godliness, without the power of it; and a name to live, and be dead. The Vulgate Latin version renders it, "many daughters have gathered riches"; or "have possessed riches", as the Septuagint, Syriac, and Arabic versions, and so the Targum; and in this sense the phrase is sometimes used for getting riches and wealth; see Deuteronomy 8:17; and may well be applied to the false churches, the church of Rome and her daughters, who possess great riches and large emoluments, which yet in a short time will come to nothing,
Revelation 18:17;
but thou excellest them all; in real beauty, in true riches, in purity of doctrine, in simplicity of worship, in holiness of life and conversation, in undefiled religion, in doing good works, properly so called. Christ's church is "the fairest among women", Song of Solomon 1:8. So Ambrose interprets the daughters of heresies and heretics.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The words of praise which the husband Proverbs 31:28 is supposed to have addressed to the ideal wife.
Virtuously - The Hebrew word has primarily (like “virtus”) the idea of “strength,” but is used with various shades of meaning. Here (as in Proverbs 12:4; Ruth 3:11) the strength is that of character stedfast in goodness. In other passages (e. g., Genesis 34:29; Psalms 49:10) it has the sense of “riches,” and is so taken here by the Septuagint and Vulgate, see also the marginal rendering.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Proverbs 31:29. Many daughters have done virtuously — This is undoubtedly the speech of the husband, giving testimony to the excellence of his wife: "Her husband also, and he praiseth her, saying, 'many daughters,' women, 'have done virtuously,' with due propriety as wives, mistresses, and mothers; 'but THOU,' my incomparable wife, 'excellent them all;' ואת עלית על כלנה veath alith al cullanah, but THOU hast ascended above the whole of them-thou hast carried every duty, every virtue, and every qualification and excellency, to a higher perfection, than any of whom we have ever read or heard." And let the reader seriously consider the above particulars, as specified under the different heads and subdivisions; and he will be probably of the same mind. But high as the character of this Jewish matron stands in the preceding description, I can say that I have met at least her equal, in a daughter of the Rev. Dr. Samuel Annesly, the wife of Samuel Wesley, sen., rector of Epworth in Lincolnshire, and mother of the late extraordinary brothers, John and Charles Wesley. I am constrained to add this testimony, after having traced her from her birth to her death, through all the relations that a woman can bear upon earth. Her Christianity gave to her virtues and excellences a heightening, which the Jewish matron could not possess. Besides, she was a woman of great learning and information, and of a depth of mind, and reach of thought, seldom to be found among the daughters of Eve, and not often among the sons of Adam.
