箴言 31:15

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

天還未亮，她就起來，把食物分給家人，把當作的工分派眾婢女。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
未 到 黎 明 他 就 起 来 ， 把 食 物 分 给 家 中 的 人 ， 将 当 做 的 工 分 派 婢 女 。

Contextual Overview

¹⁰ It is hard to find a good wife, because she is worth more than rubies. ¹¹ Her husband trusts her completely. With her, he has everything he needs. ¹² She does him good and not harm for as long as she lives. ¹³ She looks for wool and flax and likes to work with her hands. ¹⁴ She is like a trader's ship, bringing food from far away. ¹⁵ She gets up while it is still dark and prepares food for her family and feeds her servant girls. ¹⁶ She inspects a field and buys it. With money she earned, she plants a vineyard. ¹⁷ She does her work with energy, and her arms are strong. ¹⁸ She knows that what she makes is good. Her lamp burns late into the night. ¹⁹ She makes thread with her hands and weaves her own cloth.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

riseth: Joshua 3:1, 2 Chronicles 36:15, Psalms 119:147, Psalms 119:148, Ecclesiastes 9:10, Mark 1:35, Romans 12:11

and giveth: Matthew 24:25, Luke 12:42

Reciprocal: Psalms 127:2 - rise up

Cross-References

Genesis 30:26
Give me my wives and my children and let me go. I have earned them by working for you, and you know that I have served you well."

Genesis 31:7
but he cheated me and changed my pay ten times. But God has not allowed your father to harm me.

Genesis 31:11
The angel of God spoke to me in that dream and said, ‘Jacob!' I answered, ‘Yes!'

Genesis 31:15
He has treated us like strangers. He sold us to you, and then he spent all of the money you paid for us.

Genesis 31:20
And Jacob tricked Laban the Aramean by not telling him he was leaving.

Genesis 31:27
Why did you run away secretly and trick me? Why didn't you tell me? Then I could have sent you away with joy and singing and with the music of tambourines and harps.

Genesis 31:30
I know you want to go back to your home, but why did you steal my idols?"

Genesis 31:41
I worked like a slave for you for twenty years—the first fourteen to get your two daughters and the last six to earn your flocks. During that time you changed my pay ten times.

Nehemiah 5:8
I said to them, "As much as possible, we have bought freedom for our fellow Jews who had been sold to foreigners. Now you are selling your fellow Jews to us!" The leaders were quiet and had nothing to say.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

She riseth also while it is yet night,.... That is, before the ascent of the morning, as Aben Ezra explains it, before break of day; a great while before day, as Christ is said to rise to pray, Mark 1:35; while it was yet dark; so the church here: which shows her affection for her family, her care of her children, and fervent zeal for her husband's interest and good; a different frame of spirit this from that of hers in Song of Solomon 5:2;

and giveth meat to her household, and a portion to her maidens; in allusion to a daily stated allowance q of food given to such; and spiritually may be meant, by her "household" or family, the same with the family of Christ, that is named of himself, which consists of various persons, fathers, young men, and children; and by her "maidens" the ministers of the word; see Proverbs 9:3; who are stewards in the family, and have the food for it put into their hands to dispense; it is by these the church gives meat to her household feeds them with knowledge and understanding, with the wholesome words of Christ, with the good doctrines of the Gospel; these have a certain portion given them, and they rightly cut and divide the word of truth, and give to everyone their portion of meat in due season, according to their age and circumstances; milk indeed to babes and meat to strong men; see

Luke 12:42. The Targum renders the word for "portion [by] service": understanding not a portion of food, but of work, a task set them, and so the word is used in Exodus 5:14. The Septuagint, Syriac, and Arabic versions, render it, "works", which may be very well applied to the work and service of the Gospel ministry, and the several parts of it.

q "Gauldetque diurnos, ut famulae, praebere cibos", Claudian. de Bello Gild. v. 71, 72.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

A portion to her maidens - The daily task assigned to each at the same time as the daily food. Compare Proverbs 30:8; Exodus 5:14.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 31:15. She riseth also while it is yet night —

4. She is an economist of time; and when the nights are long, and the days short, her family not only spend a part of the evening after sunset in domestic labour, but they all arise before daylight, and prepare the day's food, that they may not have their labour interrupted. To those who are going to the fields, and to the flocks, she gives the food necessary for the day: טרף teref, prey, a term taken from hunting, the object of which was, the supplying their natural wants: hence applied to daily food. Proverbs 30:8. And to the women who are to be employed within, she gives חק chok, the task - the kind of work they are to do, the materials out of which they are to form it, and the quantity she expects from each. Thus all the servants are settled: their food, work, and tasks appointed. Every thing is done orderly.