箴言 31:19

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

她伸手拿著捲線竿，手掌握著紡錘。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
他 手 拿 捻 线 竿 ， 手 把 纺 线 车 。

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

She takes the spindle in her right hand, by twisting which she twists the thread; while she holds the distaff, on which the wool or flax is rolled, in the guard of the left arm, and draws down the thread with the fingers of the left hand. Exodus 35:25, Exodus 35:26

Reciprocal: Proverbs 31:24 - General

Cross-References

Genesis 31:4
So Jacob told Rachel and Leah to meet him in the field where he kept his flocks.

Genesis 31:5
He said to them, "I have seen that your father is not as friendly with me as he used to be, but the God of my father has been with me.

Genesis 31:14
Rachel and Leah answered Jacob, "Our father has nothing to give us when he dies.

Genesis 31:24
That night God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream and said, "Be careful! Do not say anything to Jacob, good or bad."

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

Genesis 31:32
If you find anyone here who has taken your idols, that person will be killed! Your relatives will be my witnesses. You may look for anything that belongs to you and take anything that is yours." (Now Jacob did not know that Rachel had stolen Laban's idols.)

Genesis 31:34
Rachel had hidden the idols inside her camel's saddle and was sitting on them. Although Laban looked through the whole tent, he did not find them.

Genesis 35:2
So Jacob said to his family and to all who were with him, "Put away the foreign gods you have, and make yourselves clean, and change your clothes.

Joshua 24:2
Then Joshua said to all the people, "Here's what the Lord , the God of Israel, says to you: ‘A long time ago your ancestors lived on the other side of the Euphrates River. Terah, the father of Abraham and Nahor, worshiped other gods.

Judges 18:31
The people of Dan set up the idols Micah had made as long as the Holy Tent of God was in Shiloh.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

She layeth her hands to the spindle,.... As Penelope and her maidens did t. Or spinning wheel, more properly, the wheel itself, which is laid hold on by the right hand, and turned round;

and her hands hold the distaff; the rock, stick, or staff, about which the wool is wrapped, which is spun, and is held in the left hand; for though hands are mentioned in both clauses, yet it is only with one hand the wheel is turned, and the distaff held with the other. Not only wool and flax were sought by her, Proverbs 31:13; but she spins them, and works them up into garments her web is not like the spider's, spun out of its own bowels, on which it hangs; to which the hope and trust of a hypocrite are compared, and whose webs do not become garments to cover them, Job 8:14; but the church's web is both for ornament, to the adorning of her profession, and for defence and protection from the calumnies of the world; for by these are meant good works, as Ambrose interprets them.

t Homer, Odyss. 1. v. 357. & 21. v. 351.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 31:19. She layeth her hands to the spindle —

10. She gives an example of skill and industry to her household. She takes the distaff, that on which the wool or flax was rolled; and the spindle, that by twisting of which she twisted the thread with the right hand, while she held the distaff in the guard of the left arm, and drew down the thread with the fingers of the left hand. Allowing that spindle and distaff are proper translations of כישור kishor, and פלך pelech, this was their use, and the way in which they were used. The spindle and distaff are the most ancient of all the instruments used for spinning, or making thread. The spinning-wheel superseded them in these countries; but still they were in considerable use till spinning machinery superseded both them and the spinning-wheels in general.