箴言 31:29

Chinese NCV (Simplified)

“有才德的女子很多，但你比她們更超卓。”

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
说 ： 才 德 的 女 子 很 多 ， 惟 独 你 超 过 一 切 。

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

done virtuously: or, gotten riches

thou: Song of Solomon 6:8, Song of Solomon 6:9, Ephesians 5:27

Reciprocal: Ruth 3:11 - city Luke 1:28 - blessed Philippians 2:20 - I have Philippians 4:8 - virtue 2 Peter 1:3 - virtue

Cross-References

Genesis 28:13
Then Jacob saw the Lord standing above the ladder, and he said, "I am the Lord , the God of Abraham your grandfather, and the God of Isaac. I will give you and your descendants the land on which you are now sleeping.

Genesis 31:2
Then Jacob noticed that Laban was not as friendly as he had been before.

Genesis 31:3
The Lord said to Jacob, "Go back to the land where your ancestors lived, and I will be with you."

Genesis 31:10
"I had a dream during the season when the flocks were mating. I saw that the only male goats who were mating were streaked, speckled, or spotted.

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

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 31:38
I have worked for you now for twenty years. During all that time none of the lambs and kids died during birth, and I have not eaten any of the male sheep from your flocks.

Genesis 31:39
Any time an animal was killed by wild beasts, I did not bring it to you, but made up for the loss myself. You made me pay for any animal that was stolen during the day or night.

Genesis 31:42
But the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the God of Isaac, was with me. Otherwise, you would have sent me away with nothing. But he saw the trouble I had and the hard work I did, and last night he corrected you."

Genesis 31:53
Let the God of Abraham, who is the God of Nahor and the God of their ancestors, punish either of us if we break this agreement." So Jacob made a promise in the name of the God whom his father Isaac worshiped.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Many daughters have done virtuously,.... This, according to Aben Ezra and Gersom, is what was said by her husband and children, and which seems to be right; especially they may be thought to be the words of her husband. By these "daughters" may be meant false churches, such as the church of Rome and her daughters, who is the mother of harlots,

Revelation 17:17. These are "many", when the true church of Christ is but one, to whom she is opposed, Song of Solomon 6:8. These may do many virtuous things externally; may make a great show of religion and devotion; may have a form of godliness, without the power of it; and a name to live, and be dead. The Vulgate Latin version renders it, "many daughters have gathered riches"; or "have possessed riches", as the Septuagint, Syriac, and Arabic versions, and so the Targum; and in this sense the phrase is sometimes used for getting riches and wealth; see Deuteronomy 8:17; and may well be applied to the false churches, the church of Rome and her daughters, who possess great riches and large emoluments, which yet in a short time will come to nothing,

Revelation 18:17;

but thou excellest them all; in real beauty, in true riches, in purity of doctrine, in simplicity of worship, in holiness of life and conversation, in undefiled religion, in doing good works, properly so called. Christ's church is "the fairest among women", Song of Solomon 1:8. So Ambrose interprets the daughters of heresies and heretics.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The words of praise which the husband Proverbs 31:28 is supposed to have addressed to the ideal wife.

Virtuously - The Hebrew word has primarily (like “virtus”) the idea of “strength,” but is used with various shades of meaning. Here (as in Proverbs 12:4; Ruth 3:11) the strength is that of character stedfast in goodness. In other passages (e. g., Genesis 34:29; Psalms 49:10) it has the sense of “riches,” and is so taken here by the Septuagint and Vulgate, see also the marginal rendering.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 31:29. Many daughters have done virtuously — This is undoubtedly the speech of the husband, giving testimony to the excellence of his wife: "Her husband also, and he praiseth her, saying, 'many daughters,' women, 'have done virtuously,' with due propriety as wives, mistresses, and mothers; 'but THOU,' my incomparable wife, 'excellent them all;' ואת עלית על כלנה veath alith al cullanah, but THOU hast ascended above the whole of them-thou hast carried every duty, every virtue, and every qualification and excellency, to a higher perfection, than any of whom we have ever read or heard." And let the reader seriously consider the above particulars, as specified under the different heads and subdivisions; and he will be probably of the same mind. But high as the character of this Jewish matron stands in the preceding description, I can say that I have met at least her equal, in a daughter of the Rev. Dr. Samuel Annesly, the wife of Samuel Wesley, sen., rector of Epworth in Lincolnshire, and mother of the late extraordinary brothers, John and Charles Wesley. I am constrained to add this testimony, after having traced her from her birth to her death, through all the relations that a woman can bear upon earth. Her Christianity gave to her virtues and excellences a heightening, which the Jewish matron could not possess. Besides, she was a woman of great learning and information, and of a depth of mind, and reach of thought, seldom to be found among the daughters of Eve, and not often among the sons of Adam.