Ecclesiastes 31:17

Nova Vulgata

HETH. Accinxit fortitudine lumbos suos et roboravit brachium suum.

Parallel Translations

Clementine Latin Vulgate (1592)
Domine, non confundar, quoniam invocavi te. Erubescant impii, et deducantur in infernum ;

Jerome's Latin Vulgate (405)
Accinxit fortitudine lumbos suos,
et roboravit brachium suum.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

girdeth: 1 Kings 18:46, 2 Kings 4:29, Job 38:3, Luke 12:35, Ephesians 6:10, Ephesians 6:14, 1 Peter 1:13

strengtheneth: Genesis 49:24, Isaiah 44:12, Hosea 7:15

Gill's Notes on the Bible

She girdeth her loins with strength,.... Showing her readiness to every good work; and with what cheerfulness, spirit, and resolution, she set about it, and with what dispatch and expedition she performed it: the allusion is to the girding and tucking up of long garments, wore in the eastern countries, when any work was set about in earnest, which required dispatch; see Luke 17:8; the strength of creatures being in their loins, Job 40:16; the loins are sometimes put for strength, as in Plautus r; and the sense is much the same with what follows;

and strengtheneth her arms; does all she finds to do with all her might and main, as the church does; not in her own strength, but in the strength of Christ; to whom she seeks for it, and in whose strength she goes forth about her business; by whom the arms of her hands are made strong, even by the mighty God of Jacob; and because she thus applies to him for it, she is said to do it herself, Genesis 49:24; here she plays the man, and acts the manly part, 1 Corinthians 16:13.

r "Lumbos defractos velim", Stichus, Act. 2. Sc. 1. v. 37.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 31:17. She girdeth her loins with strength —

7. She takes care of her own health and strength, not only by means of useful labour, but by healthy exercise. She avoids what might enervate her body, or soften her mind-she is ever active, and girt ready for every necessary exercise. Her loins are firm, and her arms strong.