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Proverbs

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Proverbs 31 📜 📕 ↷

Sayings for King Lemuel

1 THE words of Lamuel the king. The vision wherewith his mother instructed him.📜💬📚

2 What o my beloved, what o the beloved of my womb, what o beloved of my vows?📜💬📚

3 Give not thy substance to women, & thy riches to destroy kings.📜💬📚

4 Give not to kings, o Lamuel, give not wine to kings: because there is no secret where drunkenness reigneth,📜💬📚

5 & lest perhaps they drink, & forget judgments, & change the cause of the children of the poor.📜💬📚

6 Give strong drink to them that be sad, and wine unto them that are of a pensive mind:📜💬📚

7 let them drink, and forget their poverty, and not remember their sorrow any more.📜💬📚

8 Open thy mouth to the dumb, & to the causes of all the children that pass:📜💬📚

9 open thy mouth, decree that which is just, & judge the needy & poor.📜💬📚

Virtues of a Noble Woman

10 A valiant woman who shall find? Far, and from the utmost borders is the price of her.📜💬📚

11 The heart of her husband trusteth in her, and he shall not need spoils.📜💬📚

12 She shall render good, and not evil, all the days of her life.📜💬📚

13 She hath sought wool and flax, and hath wrought by the counsel of her hands.📜💬📚

14 She is become as a merchant's ship, bringing her bread from far.📜💬📚

15 And she hath risen in the night, and given prey to her household, and meats to her handmaids.📜💬📚

16 She hath viewed a field, and bought it, of the fruit of her hands she hath planted a vineyard.📜💬📚

17 She hath girded her loins with strength, and hath strengthened her arm.📜💬📚

18 She hath tasted, and seen that her traffic is good: her lamp shall not be extinguished in the night.📜💬📚

19 She hath put her hand to strong things, and her fingers have taken hold of the spindle.📜💬📚

20 She hath opened her hand to the needy, and stretched out her palms to the poor.📜💬📚

21 She shall not fear for her house in the colds of snow: for all her household are clothed with double.📜💬📚

22 Tapestry clothing she hath made to herself: silk and purple is her garment.📜💬📚

23 Her husband is noble in the gates, when he shall sit with the senators of the land.📜💬📚

24 She made sindon, and sold it, and delivered a girdle to the Chanaaneite.📜💬📚

25 Strength and beauty is her garment, and she shall laugh in the later day.📜💬📚

26 She hath opened her mouth to wisdom, and the law of clemency is in her tongue.📜💬📚

27 She hath considered the paths of her house, and hath not eaten her bread idle.📜💬📚

28 Her children arose, and commended her to be most blessed: her husband, and he praised her.📜💬📚

29 Many daughters have gathered together riches: thou hast passed them all.📜💬📚

30 Grace is deceitful and beauty is vain: the woman that feareth our Lord shall be praised.📜💬📚

31 Give ye to her of the fruit of her hands, and let her works praise her in the gates.📜💬📚