Amsal 31:14

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Ia serupa kapal-kapal saudagar, dari jauh ia mendatangkan makanannya.

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Ia serupa kapal-kapal saudagar, dari jauh ia mendatangkan makanannya.

Contextual Overview

¹⁰ Who so fyndeth an honest faythfull woman, she is much more worth then pearles. ¹¹ The heart of her husbande may safely trust in her, so that he shall fall into no pouertie. ¹² She wyll do hym good, and not euill, all the dayes of her lyfe. ¹³ She occupieth wooll and flaxe, and laboureth gladly with her handes. ¹⁴ She is like a marchauntes ship, that bryngeth her vittayles from a farre. ¹⁵ She is vp in the nyght season, to prouide meate for her housholde, and foode for her maydens. ¹⁶ She considereth lande, and byeth it: and with the fruite of her handes she planteth a vineyarde. ¹⁷ She girdeth her loynes with strength, and fortifieth her armes. ¹⁸ And yf she perceaue that her huswiferie doth good, her candell goeth not out by nyght. ¹⁹ She layeth her fingers to the spindle, & her hande taketh holde of the distaffe.

Bible Verse Review
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Proverbs 31:24, 1 Kings 9:26-28, 2 Chronicles 9:10, Ezekiel 27:3-36

Cross-References

Genesis 2:24
For this cause shall man leaue his father and his mother, and shalbe ioyned with his wyfe: and they shall become one fleshe.

Genesis 29:24
And Laban gaue vnto his daughter Lea Zilpha his mayde [to be] her seruaunt.

Genesis 29:29
And Laban gaue to Rachel his daughter Bilha his handmayde, to be her seruaunt.

Ruth 4:11
And all the people that were in the gate, and the elders, sayde, We are witnesses: The Lord make the woma that is come into thyne house, lyke Rahel and Lea, whiche twayne dyd buylde the house of Israel: & that thou mayest do worthyly in Ephrata, 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.