Proverbs 30:23

Bible in Basic English (1941)

A hated woman when she is married; and a servant-girl who takes the place of her master's wife.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 19:13 : 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.
  • 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 : 15 Like an unending dropping on a day of rain is a bitter-tongued woman.
  • Prov 29:21 : 21 If a servant is gently cared for from his early years, he will become a cause of sorrow in the end.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 30:20-22
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    76%

    20This is the way of a false wife; she takes food, and, cleaning her mouth, says, I have done no wrong.

    21For three things the earth is moved, and there are four which it will not put up with:

    22A servant when he becomes a king; a man without sense when his wealth is increased;

  • Prov 31:23
    72%

    23Her husband is a man of note in the public place, when he takes his seat among the responsible men of the land.

  • Job 31:10-11
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    71%

    10Then let my wife give pleasure to another man and let others make use of her body.

    11For that would be a crime; it would be an act for which punishment would be measured out by the judges:

  • Deut 22:13-14
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    71%

    13If any man takes a wife, and having had connection with her, has no delight in her,

    14And says evil things about her and gives her a bad name, saying, I took this woman, and when I had connection with her it was clear to me that she was not a virgin:

  • Prov 25:24
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    24It is better to be living in an angle of the house-top, than with a bitter-tongued woman in a wide house.

  • Eccl 7:26
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    26And I saw a thing more bitter than death, even the woman whose heart is full of tricks and nets, and whose hands are as bands. He with whom God is pleased will get free from her, but the sinner will be taken by her.

  • Ezek 16:32
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    32The untrue wife who takes strange lovers in place of her husband!

  • Deut 24:1-3
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    71%

    1If a man takes a wife, and after they are married she is unpleasing to him because of some bad quality in her, let him give her a statement in writing and send her away from his house.

    2And when she has gone away from him, she may become another man's wife.

    3And if the second husband has no love for her and, giving her a statement in writing, sends her away; or if death comes to the second husband to whom she was married;

  • Deut 28:30
    71%

    30You will take a wife, but another man will have the use of her: the house which your hands have made will never be your resting-place: you will make a vine-garden, and never take the fruit of it.

  • Deut 21:15
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    15If a man has two wives, one greatly loved and the other hated, and the two of them have had children by him; and if the first son is the child of the hated wife:

  • Prov 27:15-16
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    15Like an unending dropping on a day of rain is a bitter-tongued woman.

    16He who keeps secret the secret of his friend, will get himself a name for good faith.

  • Prov 21:9
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    9It is better to be living in an angle of the house-top, than with a bitter-tongued woman in a wide house.

  • Prov 19:13-14
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    13A foolish son is the destruction of his father; and the bitter arguments of a wife are like drops of rain falling without end.

    14House and wealth are a heritage from fathers, but a wife with good sense is from the Lord.

  • Prov 31:30-31
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    30Fair looks are a deceit, and a beautiful form is of no value; but a woman who has the fear of the Lord is to be praised.

    31Give her credit for what her hands have made: let her be praised by her works in the public place.

  • Deut 28:56
    70%

    56The most soft and delicate of your women, who would not so much as put her foot on the earth, so delicate is she, will be hard-hearted to her husband and to her son and to her daughter;

  • Prov 23:27
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    27For a loose woman is a deep hollow, and a strange woman is a narrow water-hole.

  • Prov 11:22
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    22Like a ring of gold in the nose of a pig, is a beautiful woman who has no sense.

  • Prov 21:19
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    19It is better to be living in a waste land, than with a bitter-tongued and angry woman.

  • Prov 7:11
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    11She is full of noise and uncontrolled; her feet keep not in her house.

  • Num 30:10
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    10But an oath made by a widow or one who is no longer married to her husband, and every undertaking she has given, will have force.

  • Prov 31:27
    69%

    27She gives attention to the ways of her family, she does not take her food without working for it.

  • Exod 21:7
    69%

    7And if a man gives his daughter for a price to be a servant, she is not to go away free as the men-servants do.

  • Exod 21:9-10
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    69%

    9And if he gives her to his son, he is to do everything for her as if she was his daughter.

    10And if he takes another woman, her food and clothing and her married rights are not to be less.

  • Prov 12:4
    69%

    4A 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.

  • Prov 30:24
    69%

    24There are four things which are little on the earth, but they are very wise:

  • Exod 21:4
    69%

    4If his master gives him a wife, and he gets sons or daughters by her, the wife and her children will be the property of the master, and the servant is to go away by himself.

  • Job 31:13
    69%

    13If I did wrong in the cause of my man-servant, or my woman-servant, when they went to law with me;

  • Prov 31:15
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    15She gets up while it is still night, and gives meat to her family, and their food to her servant-girls.

  • Prov 23:33
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    33Your eyes will see strange things, and you will say twisted things.

  • Esth 1:17
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    17For news of what the queen has done will come to the ears of all women, and they will no longer give respect to their husbands when it is said to them, King Ahasuerus gave orders for Vashti the queen to come before him and she came not.

  • Prov 6:26
    69%

    26For a loose woman is looking for a cake of bread, but another man's wife goes after one's very life.

  • Num 30:6
    69%

    6But if her father, hearing of it, makes her take back her word, then the oaths or the undertakings she has given will have no force; and she will have forgiveness from the Lord, because her oath was broken by her father.

  • Prov 5:4
    69%

    4But her end is bitter as wormwood, and sharp as a two-edged sword;

  • Prov 9:13
    68%

    13The foolish woman is full of noise; she has no sense at all.

  • Num 30:3
    68%

    3When a man takes an oath to the Lord, or gives an undertaking having the force of an oath, let him not go back from his word, but let him do whatever he has said he will do.

  • Deut 25:11
    68%

    11If two men are fighting, and the wife of one of them, coming to the help of her husband, takes the other by the private parts;

  • Prov 3:16
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    16Long life is in her right hand, and in her left are wealth and honour.

  • Prov 31:13
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    13She gets wool and linen, working at the business of her hands.