Proverbs 31 — WBMS
31Verse 1The words of Lemuel, the king; the vision by which his mother taught him.Verse 2What, my darling? what, the darling of my womb? what, the darling of my desires?Verse 3Give thou not thy chattel [or thy substance] to women, and thy riches to do away kings.Verse 4A! Lemuel, do not thou give wine to kings; for no privacy there is, where drunkenness reigneth.Verse 5Lest peradventure they drink, and forget dooms, and change the cause of the sons of a poor man.Verse 6Give ye cider to them that mourn, and wine to them that be of bitter soul.Verse 7Drink they, and forget they their neediness; and think they no more on their sorrow.Verse 8Open thy mouth for a dumb man, and open thy mouth for the causes of all sons that pass forth.Verse 9Deem thou that that is just, and deem thou a needy man and a poor man.Verse 10Who shall find a strong woman? the price of her is[a] far, and from the last [or utmost] ends.Verse 11The heart of her husband trusteth in her; and he shall not have need to robberies.Verse 12She shall yield to him good, and not evil, in all the days of her life.Verse 13She sought wool and flax; and wrought by the counsel of her hands.Verse 14She is made as the ship of a merchant, that beareth his bread from [a] far.Verse 15And she rose by night, and gave lifelode to her menials, and meats to her handmaidens.Verse 16She beheld a field, and bought it; of the fruit of her hands she planted a vinery [or a vineyard].Verse 17She girded her loins with strength, and made strong her arm.Verse 18She tasted, and saw, that her merchandise was good; her lantern shall not be quenched in the night.Verse 19She put her hands to the wharve, and her fingers took the spindle.Verse 20She opened her hand to the needy man, and stretched forth her hands to a poor man.Verse 21She shall not dread for her house of the colds of snow; for all her menials be clothed with double clothes.Verse 22She made to her a ray-cloth; bis, either white silk, and purple is the cloth[ing] of her.Verse 23Her husband is noble in the gates, when he sitteth with the senators of [the] earth.Verse 24She made linen cloth, and sold it; and gave a girdle to a merchant.Verse 25Strength and fairness is the clothing of her; and she shall laugh in the last day.Verse 26She opened her mouth to wisdom; and the law of mercy is in her tongue.Verse 27She beheld the paths of her house; and she ate not bread idly.Verse 28Her sons rose up, and preached her most blessed; her husband rose, and praised her.Verse 29Many daughters gathered riches; thou passedest them all.Verse 30Fairness is deceivable grace, and vain; that woman, that dreadeth the Lord, [she] shall be praised.Verse 31Give ye to her of the fruit of her hands; and her works praise her in the gates.