Proverbs 31:29

Green's Literal Translation

Many are the daughters who act with virtue, but you rise above them 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."

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.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
Many daughters have obtained wealth, many have wrought valiantly; but thou hast exceeded, thou hast surpassed 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 can find a woman of virtue? For her value is far above jewels. ¹¹ The heart of her husband trusts in her, so that he has no lack of gain. ¹² She deals good with him, and not evil, all the days of her life. ¹³ She seeks wool and flax, and she works with her hands with delight. ¹⁴ She is like the merchant ships, she brings in her food from afar. ¹⁵ She also rises while it is still night and gives game to her household, and a portion to her maidens. ¹⁶ She has examined a field and takes it; she plants a vineyard from the fruit of her hands. ¹⁷ She has girded her loins with strength, and has made her arms strong. ¹⁸ She tastes whether her gain is good, her lamp is not put out by night. ¹⁹ She has sent forth her hands on the distaff, and her hands have held 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, behold, Jehovah stood above it and said, I am Jehovah the God of your father Abraham, and the God of Isaac; the land on which you are lying, I will give it to you and to your seed.

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

Genesis 31:3
And Jehovah said to Jacob, Go back to the land of your fathers and to your kindred. And I will be with you.

Genesis 31:10
And it happened at the time the flock was in heat, I lifted up my eyes and saw in a dream: And behold! The rams leaping on the flock were striped, speckled, and spotted.

Genesis 31:11
And the Angel of God spoke to me in a dream, Jacob! And I said, Behold me.

Genesis 31:24
And God came to Laban the Syrian in a dream of the night, and said to him, Watch out for yourself, that you not speak with Jacob from good to evil.

Genesis 31:38
Now I was with you twenty years. Your ewes and your she-goats have not failed to bear, and I have not eaten the rams of your flock.

Genesis 31:39
I did not bring to you the mangled; I replaced it. From my hand you exacted it, that stolen by day and that stolen by night.

Genesis 31:42
Except the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac, had been for me, truly now you would have sent me away empty. God has seen my affliction and the toil of my hand, and last night He judged.

Genesis 31:53
The God of Abraham, the God of Nahor, the God of their father, let 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.