Verse 4

A woman of virtue is a crown to her husband; but she whose behaviour is a cause of shame is like a wasting disease in his bones.

Referenced Verses

• Prov 14:30 : 30 A quiet mind is the life of the body, but envy is a disease in the bones.
• Prov 19:13-14 : 13 A foolish son is the destruction of his father; and the bitter arguments of a wife are like drops of rain falling without end. 14 House and wealth are a heritage from fathers, but a wife with good sense is from the Lord.
• Prov 21:9 : 9 It is better to be living in an angle of the house-top, than with a bitter-tongued woman in a wide house.
• Prov 21:19 : 19 It is better to be living in a waste land, than with a bitter-tongued and angry woman.
• Prov 27:15-16 : 15 Like an unending dropping on a day of rain is a bitter-tongued woman. 16 He who keeps secret the secret of his friend, will get himself a name for good faith.
• Prov 31:10-25 : 10 Who may make discovery of a woman of virtue? For her price is much higher than jewels. 11 The heart of her husband has faith in her, and he will have profit in full measure. 12 She does him good and not evil all the days of her life. 13 She gets wool and linen, working at the business of her hands. 14 She is like the trading-ships, getting food from far away. 15 She gets up while it is still night, and gives meat to her family, and their food to her servant-girls. 16 After looking at a field with care, she gets it for a price, planting a vine-garden with the profit of her work. 17 She puts a band of strength round her, and makes her arms strong. 18 She sees that her marketing is of profit to her: her light does not go out by night. 19 She puts her hands to the cloth-working rod, and her fingers take the wheel. 20 Her hands are stretched out to the poor; yes, she is open-handed to those who are in need. 21 She has no fear of the snow for her family, for all those in her house are clothed in red. 22 She makes for herself cushions of needlework; her clothing is fair linen and purple. 23 Her husband is a man of note in the public place, when he takes his seat among the responsible men of the land. 24 She makes linen robes and gets a price for them, and traders take her cloth bands for a price. 25 Strength and self-respect are her clothing; she is facing the future with a smile.
• Hab 3:16 : 16 Hearing it, my inner parts were moved, and my lips were shaking at the sound; my bones became feeble, and my steps were uncertain under me: I gave sounds of grief in the day of trouble, when his forces came up against the people in bands.
• 1 Cor 11:7 : 7 For it is not right for a man to have his head covered, because he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man.
• Prov 14:1 : 1 Wisdom is building her house, but the foolish woman is pulling it down with her hands.
• 1 Cor 11:11 : 11 But the woman is not separate from the man, and the man is not separate from the woman in the Lord.