Proverbs 30:23

Authorized King James Version (1611)

For an odious [woman] when she is married; and an 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 a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house.
  • Prov 21:19 : 19 ¶ [It is] better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry 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 [his] son at the length.

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    20 Such [is] the way of an adulterous woman; she eateth, and wipeth her mouth, and saith, I have done no wickedness.

    21 For three [things] the earth is disquieted, and for four [which] it cannot bear:

    22 For a servant when he reigneth; and a fool when he is filled with meat;

  • Prov 31:23
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    23 Her husband is known in the gates, when he sitteth among the elders of the land.

  • Job 31:10-11
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    10 [Then] let my wife grind unto another, and let others bow down upon her.

    11 For this [is] an heinous crime; yea, it [is] an iniquity [to be punished by] the judges.

  • Deut 22:13-14
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    13 ¶ If any man take a wife, and go in unto her, and hate her,

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  • Prov 25:24
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    24 ¶ [It is] better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman and in a wide house.

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

  • Ezek 16:32
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    32 [But as] a wife that committeth adultery, [which] taketh strangers instead of her husband!

  • Deut 24:1-3
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    1 ¶ When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some uncleanness in her: then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give [it] in her hand, and send her out of his house.

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

    3 And [if] the latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of divorcement, and giveth [it] in her hand, and sendeth her out of his house; or if the latter husband die, which took her [to be] his wife;

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

  • Deut 21:15
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    15 ¶ If a man have two wives, one beloved, and another hated, and they have born him children, [both] the beloved and the hated; and [if] the firstborn son be hers that was hated:

  • Prov 27:15-16
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    15 ¶ A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike.

    16 Whosoever hideth her hideth the wind, and the ointment of his right hand, [which] bewrayeth [itself].

  • Prov 21:9
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    9 ¶ [It is] better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house.

  • Prov 19:13-14
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    13 ¶ A foolish son [is] the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife [are] a continual dropping.

    14 ¶ House and riches [are] the inheritance of fathers: and a prudent wife [is] from the LORD.

  • Prov 31:30-31
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    30 Favour [is] deceitful, and beauty [is] vain: [but] a woman [that] feareth the LORD, she shall be praised.

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

  • Deut 28:56
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  • Prov 7:11
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  • Num 30:10
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    10 And if she vowed in her husband's house, or bound her soul by a bond with an oath;

  • Prov 31:27
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    27 She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness.

  • Exod 21:7
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    7 And if a man sell his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall not go out as the menservants do.

  • Exod 21:9-10
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  • Prov 30:24
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    24 ¶ There be four [things which are] little upon the earth, but they [are] exceeding wise:

  • Exod 21:4
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  • Job 31:13
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  • Prov 23:33
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    33 Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things.

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  • Prov 6:26
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    26 For by means of a whorish woman [a man is brought] to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life.

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    6 And if she had at all an husband, when she vowed, or uttered ought out of her lips, wherewith she bound her soul;

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