Proverbs 31:29

Brenton's Septuagint

Many daughters have obtained wealth, many have wrought valiantly; but thou hast exceeded, thou hast surpassed all.

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
“Many women have done noble deeds,but you surpass them all!”

Hebrew Names Version
"Many women do noble things, But you excel them all."

King James Version
Many daughters have done virtuously, but thou excellest them all.

English Standard Version
"Many women have done excellently, but you surpass them all."

New American Standard Bible
"Many daughters have done nobly, But you excel them all."

New Century Version
saying, "There are many fine women, but you are better than all of them."

Amplified Bible
"Many daughters have done nobly, and well [with the strength of character that is steadfast in goodness], But you excel them all."

World English Bible
"Many women do noble things, But you excel them all."

Geneva Bible (1587)
Many daughters haue done vertuously: but thou surmountest them all.

Legacy Standard Bible
"Many daughters have done excellently,But you have gone above them all."

Berean Standard Bible
"Many daughters have done noble things, but you surpass them all!"

Contemporary English Version
"There are many good women, but you are the best!"

Complete Jewish Bible
ר "Many women have done wonderful things, but you surpass them all!"

Darby Translation
Many daughters have done worthily, but thou excellest them all.

Easy-to-Read Version
"There are many good women, but you are the best."

George Lamsa Translation
Many daughters have become rich, but you have excelled them all.

Good News Translation
He says, "Many women are good wives, but you are the best of them all."

Lexham English Bible
"Many daughters have done excellence, but you surpass all of them."

Literal Translation
Many are the daughters who act with virtue, but you rise above them all!

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Many daughters there be yt gather riches together, but thou goest aboue the all.

American Standard Version
Many daughters have done worthily, But thou excellest them all.

Bible in Basic English
Unnumbered women have done well, but you are better than all of them.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
'Many daughters have done valiantly, but thou excellest them all.'

King James Version (1611)
Many daughters haue done vertuously, but thou excellest them all.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
Many daughters [there be that] gather riches together: but thou goest aboue them all.

English Revised Version
Many daughters have done virtuously, but thou excellest them all.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Many douytris gaderiden richessis; thou passidist alle.

Update Bible Version
Many daughters have done worthily, But you excel them all.

Webster's Bible Translation
Many daughters have done virtuously, but thou excellest them all.

New English Translation
"Many daughters have done valiantly, but you surpass them all!"

New King James Version
"Many daughters have done well, But you excel them all."

New Living Translation
"There are many virtuous and capable women in the world, but you surpass them all!"

New Life Bible
"Many daughters have done well, but you have done better than all of them."

New Revised Standard
"Many women have done excellently, but you surpass them all."

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Many daughters, have done virtuously, but, thou, excellest them all!

Douay-Rheims Bible
Many daughters have gathered together riches: thou hast surpassed them all.

Revised Standard Version
"Many women have done excellently, but you surpass them all."

Young's Literal Translation
`Many [are] the daughters who have done worthily, Thou hast gone up above them all.'

New American Standard Bible (1995)
"Many daughters have done nobly, But you excel them all."

Contextual Overview

¹⁰ Who shall find a virtuous woman? for such a one is more valuable than precious stones. ¹¹ The heart of her husband trusts in her: such a one shall stand in no need of fine spoils. ¹² For she employs all her living for her husband’s good. ¹³ Gathering wool and flax, she makes it serviceable with her hands. ¹⁴ She is like a ship trading from a distance: so she procures her livelihood. ¹⁵ And she rises by night, and gives food to her household, and appointed tasks to her maidens. ¹⁶ She views a farm, and buys it: and with the fruit of her hands she plants and a possession. ¹⁷ She strongly girds her loins, and strengthens her arms for work. ¹⁸ And she finds by experience that working is good; and her candle goes not out all night. ¹⁹ She reaches forth her arms to needful works, and applies her hands to the spindle.

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
And the Lord stood upon it, and said, I am the God of thy father Abraam, and the God of Isaac; fear not, the land on which thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed.

Genesis 31:2
And Jacob saw the countenance of Laban, and behold it was not toward him as before.

Genesis 31:3
And the Lord said to Jacob, Return to the land of thy father, and to thy family, and I will be with thee.

Genesis 31:10
And it came to pass when the cattle conceived and were with young, that I beheld with mine eyes in sleep, and behold the he-goats and the rams leaping on the sheep and the she-goats, speckled and variegated and spotted with ash-coloured spots.

Genesis 31:11
And the angel of God said to me in a dream, Jacob; and I said, What is it?

Genesis 31:24
And God came to Laban the Syrian in sleep by night, and said to him, Take heed to thyself that thou speak not at any time to Jacob evil things.

Genesis 31:38
These twenty years have I been with thee; thy sheep, and thy she-goats have not failed in bearing; I devoured not the rams of thy cattle.

Genesis 31:39
That which was taken of beasts I brought not to thee; I made good of myself the thefts of the day, and the thefts of the night.

Genesis 31:42
Unless I had the God of my father Abraam, and the fear of Isaac, now thou wouldest have sent me away empty; God saw my humiliation, and the labour of my hands, and rebuked thee yesterday.

Genesis 31:53
The God of Abraam and the God of Nachor judge between us; and Jacob swore by the Fear of his father Isaac.

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.