箴言 30:23

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

被人厭惡的女子出嫁，婢女接替主母的地位。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
丑 恶 的 女 子 出 嫁 ； 婢 女 接 续 主 母 。

Contextual Overview

¹⁸ "There are three things that are too hard for me, really four I don't understand: ¹⁹ the way an eagle flies in the sky, the way a snake slides over a rock, the way a ship sails on the sea, and the way a man and a woman fall in love. ²⁰ "This is the way of a woman who takes part in adultery: She acts as if she had eaten and washed her face; she says, ‘I haven't done anything wrong.' ²¹ "There are three things that make the earth tremble, really four it cannot stand: ²² a servant who becomes a king, a foolish person who has plenty to eat, ²³ a hated woman who gets married, and a maid who replaces her mistress.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

an odious: Proverbs 19:13, Proverbs 21:9, Proverbs 21:19, Proverbs 27:15

an handmaid: Proverbs 29:21

Reciprocal: Genesis 15:3 - born Genesis 16:4 - her mistress

Cross-References

Genesis 29:31
When the Lord saw that Jacob loved Rachel more than Leah, he made it possible for Leah to have children, but not Rachel.

Genesis 30:5
She became pregnant and gave Jacob a son.

Genesis 30:6
Rachel said, "God has judged me innocent. He has listened to my prayer and has given me a son," so she named him Dan.

Isaiah 4:1
At that time seven women will grab one man and say, "We will eat our own bread and make our own clothes, but please marry us! Please, take away our shame."

Luke 1:21
Outside, the people were still waiting for Zechariah and were surprised that he was staying so long in the Temple.

Luke 1:25
"Look what the Lord has done for me! My people were ashamed of me, but now the Lord has taken away that shame."

Luke 1:27
to a virgin. She was engaged to marry a man named Joseph from the family of David. Her name was Mary.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For an odious [woman], when she is married,.... Odious for her person, her ugliness, and the deformity of her body; or rather for the ill qualities of her mind, which, while single, she endeavours to conceal, but, being married, hides them no longer; but becomes imperious, proud, scornful, and malicious, and behaves in an ill natured way to her husband and all about her, to such a degree, that there is no bearing the place where she is;

and an handmaid, that is heir to her mistress; that has got so much into her affections that she leaves all she has to her when she dies, which makes her insufferably proud and vain; or she marries her master after the death of her mistress, and so coming into her place enjoys all she had, but only her wisdom and humility; which being wanting, she behaves in such a manner as to make the whole family uneasy. This might be exemplified in the case of Hagar, the bondmaid of Sarah, a type of those that are under the law of works, and seek the inheritance by it; and who trust in themselves that they are righteous, and despise others, Genesis 16:4.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Odious woman - One in whom there is nothing loveable. Marriage, which to most women is the state in which they find scope for their highest qualities, becomes to her only a sphere in which to make herself and others miserable.