Proverbs 30:23

American Standard Version (1901)

For an odious woman when she is married; And a handmaid that is heir to her mistress.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 19:13 : 13 A foolish son is the calamity of his father; And the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.
  • Prov 21:9 : 9 It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, Than with a contentious woman in a wide house.
  • Prov 21:19 : 19 It is better to dwell in a desert land, Than with a contentious and fretful woman.
  • Prov 27:15 : 15 A continual dropping in a very rainy day And a contentious woman are alike:
  • Prov 29:21 : 21 He that delicately bringeth up his servant from a child Shall have him become a son at the last.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 30:20-22
    3 verses
    76%

    20So is the way of an adulterous woman; She eateth, and wipeth her mouth, And saith, I have done no wickedness.

    21For three things the earth doth tremble, And for four, [which] it cannot bear:

    22For a servant when he is king; And a fool when he is filled with food;

  • Prov 31:23
    72%

    23Her husband is known in the gates, When he sitteth among the elders of the land.

  • Job 31:10-11
    2 verses
    71%

    10Then let my wife grind unto another, And let others bow down upon her.

    11For that were a heinous crime; Yea, it were an iniquity to be punished by the judges:

  • Deut 22:13-14
    2 verses
    71%

    13If any man take a wife, and go in unto her, and hate her,

    14and lay shameful things to her charge, and bring up an evil name upon her, and say, I took this woman, and when I came nigh to her, I found not in her the tokens of virginity;

  • Prov 25:24
    71%

    24It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, Than with a contentious woman in a wide house.

  • Eccl 7:26
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    26And I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and nets, [and] whose hands are bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her. [

  • Ezek 16:32
    71%

    32A wife that committeth adultery! that taketh strangers instead of her husband!

  • Deut 24:1-3
    3 verses
    71%

    1When a man taketh a wife, and marrieth her, then it shall be, if she find no favor in his eyes, because he hath found some unseemly thing in her, that he shall write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.

    2And when she is departed out of his house, she may go and be another man's [wife] .

    3And if the latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house; or if the latter husband die, who took her to be his wife;

  • Deut 28:30
    71%

    30Thou shalt betroth a wife, and another man shall lie with her: thou shalt build a house, and thou shalt not dwell therein: thou shalt plant a vineyard, and shalt not use the fruit thereof.

  • Deut 21:15
    70%

    15If a man have two wives, the one beloved, and the other hated, and they have borne him children, both the beloved and the hated; and if the first-born son be hers that was hated;

  • Prov 27:15-16
    2 verses
    70%

    15A continual dropping in a very rainy day And a contentious woman are alike:

    16He that would restrain her restraineth the wind; And his right hand encountereth oil.

  • Prov 21:9
    70%

    9It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, Than with a contentious woman in a wide house.

  • Prov 19:13-14
    2 verses
    70%

    13A foolish son is the calamity of his father; And the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.

    14House and riches are an inheritance from fathers; But a prudent wife is from Jehovah.

  • Prov 31:30-31
    2 verses
    70%

    30Grace is deceitful, and beauty is vain; [But] a woman that feareth Jehovah, she shall be praised.

    31Give her of the fruit of her hands; And let her works praise her in the gates.

  • Deut 28:56
    70%

    56The tender and delicate woman among you, who would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter,

  • Prov 23:27
    70%

    27For a harlot is a deep ditch; And a foreign woman is a narrow pit.

  • Prov 11:22
    70%

    22[ As] a ring of gold in a swine's snout, [So is] a fair woman that is without discretion.

  • Prov 21:19
    69%

    19It is better to dwell in a desert land, Than with a contentious and fretful woman.

  • Prov 7:11
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    11(She is clamorous and wilful; Her feet abide not in her house:

  • Num 30:10
    69%

    10And if she vowed in her husband's house, or bound her soul by a bond with an oath,

  • Prov 31:27
    69%

    27She looketh well to the ways of her household, And eateth not the bread of idleness.

  • Exod 21:7
    69%

    7And if a man sell his daughter to be a maid-servant, she shall not go out as the men-servants do.

  • Exod 21:9-10
    2 verses
    69%

    9And if he espouse her unto his son, he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters.

    10If he take him another [wife] ; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish.

  • Prov 12:4
    69%

    4A worthy woman is the crown of her husband; But she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.

  • Prov 30:24
    69%

    24There are four things which are little upon the earth, But they are exceeding wise:

  • Exod 21:4
    69%

    4If his master give him a wife, and she bear him sons or daughters; the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out by himself.

  • Job 31:13
    69%

    13If I have despised the cause of my man-servant or of my maid-servant, When they contended with me;

  • Prov 31:15
    69%

    15She riseth also while it is yet night, And giveth food to her household, And their task to her maidens.

  • Prov 23:33
    69%

    33Thine eyes shall behold strange things, And thy heart shall utter perverse things.

  • Esth 1:17
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    17For this deed of the queen will come abroad unto all women, to make their husbands contemptible in their eyes, when it shall be reported, The king Ahasuerus commanded Vashti the queen to be brought in before him, but she came not.

  • Prov 6:26
    69%

    26For on account of a harlot [a man is brought] to a piece of bread; And the adulteress hunteth for the precious life.

  • Num 30:6
    69%

    6And if she be [married] to a husband, while her vows are upon her, or the rash utterance of her lips, wherewith she hath bound her soul,

  • Prov 5:4
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    4But in the end she is bitter as wormwood, Sharp as a two-edged sword.

  • Prov 9:13
    68%

    13The foolish woman is clamorous; [She is] simple, and knoweth nothing.

  • Num 30:3
    68%

    3Also when a woman voweth a vow unto Jehovah, and bindeth herself by a bond, being in her father's house, in her youth,

  • Deut 25:11
    68%

    11When men strive together one with another, and the wife of the one draweth near to deliver her husband out of the hand of him that smiteth him, and putteth forth her hand, and taketh him by the secrets;

  • Prov 3:16
    68%

    16Length of days is in her right hand; In her left hand are riches and honor.

  • Prov 31:13
    68%

    13She seeketh wool and flax, And worketh willingly with her hands.