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Proverbs 31:12

She does him good and not bad all the days of her life.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Economics;   Poetry;   Wife;   Women;   Thompson Chain Reference - Co-Operation;   Unity-Strife;   Woman;   The Topic Concordance - Charity;   Praise;   Speech/communication;   Virtue;   Women;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Wives;   Woman;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Lemuel;   Letters;   Proverb, the Book of;   Woman;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Wife;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Beauty;   Woman;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Poetry;   Wife;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Education;   Lemuel;   Marriage;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Acrostic;   Proverbs, Book of;   Wisdom and Wise Men;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Acrostic;   Ethics;   Marriage;   Massa;   Song of Songs;   Trade and Commerce;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Home (2);   Parents (2);   Sirach;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Poetry;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Writing;  

Encyclopedias:

- The Jewish Encyclopedia - Acrostics;   Monogamy;   Poetry;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
She rewards him with good, not evil,all the days of her life.
Hebrew Names Version
She does him good, and not harm, All the days of her life.
King James Version
She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life.
English Standard Version
She does him good, and not harm, all the days of her life.
New American Standard Bible
She does him good and not evil All the days of her life.
New Century Version
She does him good and not harm for as long as she lives.
Amplified Bible
She comforts, encourages, and does him only good and not evil All the days of her life.
World English Bible
She does him good, and not harm, All the days of her life.
Geneva Bible (1587)
She will doe him good, and not euill all the dayes of her life.
Legacy Standard Bible
She deals bountifully with him for good and not evilAll the days of her life.
Berean Standard Bible
She will bring him good and not harm all the days of her life.
Contemporary English Version
She is good to him every day of her life,
Complete Jewish Bible
ג She works to bring him good, not harm, all the days of her life.
Darby Translation
She doeth him good, and not evil, all the days of her life.
Easy-to-Read Version
She does good for her husband all her life. She never causes him trouble.
George Lamsa Translation
She does him good and not evil all the days of her life.
Good News Translation
As long as she lives, she does him good and never harm.
Lexham English Bible
She does him good, but not harm all the days of her life.
Literal Translation
She deals good with him, and not evil, all the days of her life.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
She wil do him good & not euel all ye dayes of hir life.
American Standard Version
She doeth him good and not evil All the days of her life.
Bible in Basic English
She does him good and not evil all the days of her life.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
She doeth him good and not evil all the days of her life.
King James Version (1611)
She will doe him good, and not euill, all the dayes of her life.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
She wyll do hym good, and not euill, all the dayes of her lyfe.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
For she employs all her living for her husband’s good.
English Revised Version
She doeth him good and not evil all the days of her life.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Sche schal yelde to hym good, and not yuel, in alle the daies of hir lijf.
Update Bible Version
She does him good and not evil All the days of her life.
Webster's Bible Translation
She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life.
New English Translation
She brings him good and not evil all the days of her life.
New King James Version
She does him good and not evil All the days of her life.
New Living Translation
She brings him good, not harm, all the days of her life.
New Revised Standard
She does him good, and not harm, all the days of her life.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
She doeth him good and not evil, all the days of her life:
Douay-Rheims Bible
She will render him good, and not evil all the days of her life.
Revised Standard Version
She does him good, and not harm, all the days of her life.
Young's Literal Translation
She hath done him good, and not evil, All days of her life.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
She does him good and not evil All the days of her life.

Contextual Overview

10 Who can find a good wife? For she is worth far more than rubies that make one rich. 11 The heart of her husband trusts in her, and he will never stop getting good things. 12 She does him good and not bad all the days of her life. 13 She looks for wool and flax, and works with willing hands. 14 She is like ships that trade. She brings her food from far away. 15 She rises while it is still night and makes food for all those in her house. She gives work for the young women to do. 16 She gives careful thought to a field and buys it. She plants grape-vines from what she has earned. 17 She makes herself ready with strength, and makes her arms strong. 18 She sees that what she has earned is good. Her lamp does not go out at night. 19 She puts her hands to the wheel to make cloth.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

1 Samuel 25:18-22, 1 Samuel 25:26, 1 Samuel 25:27

Reciprocal: 1 Samuel 25:19 - But

Cross-References

Genesis 31:37
What things of your house have you found by looking through all that belongs to me? Set it here in front of my brothers and your brothers, so they may judge between us.
Genesis 31:42
If the God of my father, the God of Abraham and the fear of Isaac, had not been with me, for sure you would have sent me away with nothing. God has seen my suffering and the work of my hands. So He spoke sharp words to you last night."
Genesis 31:43
Laban answered Jacob, "The daughters are my daughters. The children are my children. And the flocks are my flocks. All that you see is mine. But what can I do today to these my daughters or to their children who were born to them?
Exodus 3:7
The Lord said, "I have seen the suffering of My people in Egypt. I have heard their cry because of the men who make them work. I know how they suffer.
Exodus 3:9
Now the cry of the people of Israel has come to Me. I have seen what power the Egyptians use to make it hard for them.
Leviticus 19:13
‘Do not make it hard for your neighbor or rob him. You should not keep the pay of a man who works for you until the next morning.
Deuteronomy 24:15
Give him his pay on the day he earns it before the sun goes down. He is poor and he needs it. Then he will not cry to the Lord against you and you would be guilty of sin.
Psalms 12:5
"Because of the suffering of the weak, and because of the cries of the poor, I will now rise up," says the Lord. "I will keep him safe as he has wanted to be."
Psalms 139:3
You look over my path and my lying down. You know all my ways very well.
Ecclesiastes 5:8
In one part of a land if you see a bad power held over the poor, and what is right and fair and good taken away, do not be surprised by what you see. For one leader watches over another leader, and more important leaders watch over them.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

She will do him good, and not evil,.... Or, repay good unto him, give him thanks for all the good things bestowed by him on her; will seek his interest, and promote his honour and glory to the uttermost; all the good works she does, which she is qualified for, and ready to perform, are all done in his name and strength, and with a view to his glory; nor will she do any evil willingly and knowingly against him, against his truths and ordinances; or that is detrimental to his honour, and prejudicial to his interest, 2 Corinthians 13:8;

all the days of her life; through which she desires to serve him in righteousness and true holiness; and to be steadfast and immovable, always abounding in his work, Luke 1:74.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 31:12. She will do him good

4. She has her husband's happiness in view constantly. She recompenses all his kindness to her in beneficent acts. For kind words she returns kind deeds.

1) Her good is unmixed; she will do him good, and not evil.

2) Her good is not capricious; it is constant and permanent, while she and her husband live. His heart safely trusts in her, for she will do him good all the days of her life. This is her general character.


 
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