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Proverbs 31:29
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“Many women have done noble deeds,but you surpass them all!”
"Many women do noble things, But you excel them all."
Many daughters have done virtuously, but thou excellest them all.
"Many women have done excellently, but you surpass them all."
"Many daughters have done nobly, But you excel them all."
saying, "There are many fine women, but you are better than all of them."
"Many daughters have done nobly, and well [with the strength of character that is steadfast in goodness], But you excel them all."
"Many women do noble things, But you excel them all."
Many daughters haue done vertuously: but thou surmountest them all.
"Many daughters have done excellently,But you have gone above them all."
"Many daughters have done noble things, but you surpass them all!"
ר "Many women have done wonderful things, but you surpass them all!"
Many daughters have done worthily, but thou excellest them all.
"There are many good women, but you are the best."
Many daughters have become rich, but you have excelled them all.
He says, "Many women are good wives, but you are the best of them all."
"Many daughters have done excellence, but you surpass all of them."
Many are the daughters who act with virtue, but you rise above them all!
Many daughters there be yt gather riches together, but thou goest aboue the all.
Many daughters have done worthily, But thou excellest them all.
Unnumbered women have done well, but you are better than all of them.
'Many daughters have done valiantly, but thou excellest them all.'
Many daughters haue done vertuously, but thou excellest them all.
Many daughters [there be that] gather riches together: but thou goest aboue them all.
Many daughters have obtained wealth, many have wrought valiantly; but thou hast exceeded, thou hast surpassed all.
Many daughters have done virtuously, but thou excellest them all.
Many douytris gaderiden richessis; thou passidist alle.
Many daughters have done worthily, But you excel them all.
Many daughters have done virtuously, but thou excellest them all.
"Many daughters have done valiantly, but you surpass them all!"
"Many daughters have done well, But you excel them all."
"There are many virtuous and capable women in the world, but you surpass them all!"
"Many daughters have done well, but you have done better than all of them."
"Many women have done excellently, but you surpass them all."
Many daughters, have done virtuously, but, thou, excellest them all!
Many daughters have gathered together riches: thou hast surpassed them all.
"Many women have done excellently, but you surpass them all."
`Many [are] the daughters who have done worthily, Thou hast gone up above them all.'
"Many daughters have done nobly, But you excel them all."
Contextual Overview
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
The Lord was standing beside the ladder and said: I am the Lord God who was worshiped by Abraham and Isaac. I will give to you and your family the land on which you are now sleeping.
Jacob also noticed that Laban was not as friendly as he had been before.
One day the Lord said, "Jacob, go back to your relatives in the land of your ancestors, and I will bless you."
Once, when the flocks were mating, I dreamed that all the rams were either spotted or speckled.
Then God's angel called me by name. I answered,
But God appeared to Laban in a dream that night and warned, "Don't say a word to Jacob. Don't make a threat or a promise."
In all the twenty years that I've worked for you, not one of your sheep or goats has had a miscarriage, and I've never eaten even one of your rams.
If a wild animal killed one of your sheep or goats, I paid for it myself. In fact, you demanded the full price, whether the animal was killed during the day or at night.
If the fearsome God worshiped by Abraham and my father Isaac had not been on my side, you would have sent me away without a thing. But God saw my hard work, and he knew the trouble I was in, so he helped me. Then last night he told you how wrong you were.
My father Nahor, your grandfather Abraham, and their ancestors all worshiped the same God, and he will make sure that we each keep the agreement. Then Jacob made a promise in the name of the fearsome God his father Isaac had 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 âvirtusâ) the idea of âstrength,â 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 âriches,â 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;' ××ת ×¢××ת ×¢× ××× × 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.
