Proverbs 30:23

King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

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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  • Prov 30:20-22
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    20Such 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 is disquieted, and for four which it cannot bear:

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

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

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

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

  • Deut 22:13-14
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    71%

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

    14And give occasions of speech against her, and bring up an evil name upon her, and say, I took this woman, and when I came to her, I found her not a maid:

  • Prov 25:24
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    24It 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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    26And 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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    32But as a wife that committeth adultery, which taketh strangers instead of her husband!

  • Deut 24:1-3
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    1When 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.

    2And when she is parted 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 giveth it in her hand, and senth her out of his house; or if the latter husband die, which took her to be his wife;

  • Deut 28:30
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    30Thou 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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    15If 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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    15A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike.

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

  • Prov 21:9
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    9It 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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    13A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.

    14House and riches are the inheritance of fathers: and a udent wife is from the LORD.

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

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

  • Deut 28:56
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    56The tenr and licate woman among you, which would not adventure to set the sole of her foot upon the ground for licateness and tenrness, her eye shall be evil toward the husband of her bosom, and toward her son, and toward her daughter,

  • Prov 23:27
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    27For a whore is a deep ditch; and a strange woman is a narrow pit.

  • Prov 11:22
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    22As a jewel of gold in a swine's snout, so is a fair woman which is without discretion.

  • Prov 21:19
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    19It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry woman.

  • Prov 7:11
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    11(She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house:

  • Num 30:10
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    10And 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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    27She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness.

  • Exod 21:7
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    7And 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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    9And if he have betrothed 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
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    4A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband: but she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.

  • Prov 30:24
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    24There be four things which are little upon the earth, but they are exceeding wise:

  • Exod 21:4
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    4If his master have given him a wife, and she have born him sons or daughters; the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out by himself.

  • Job 31:13
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    13If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me;

  • Prov 31:15
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    15She riseth also while it is yet night, and giveth meat to her household, and a portion to her maidens.

  • Prov 23:33
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    33Thine eyes shall behold strange women, and thine heart shall utter perverse things.

  • Esth 1:17
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    17For this deed of the queen shall come abroad unto all women, so that they shall dpise their husbands in their ey, 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
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    26For by means of a whorish woman a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the ecious life.

  • Num 30:6
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    6And if she had at all an husband, when she vowed, or uttered ought out of her lips, wherewith she bound her soul;

  • Prov 5:4
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    4But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a twoedged sword.

  • Prov 9:13
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    13A foolish woman is clamorous: she is simple, and knoweth nothing.

  • Num 30:3
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    3If a woman also vow a vow unto the LORD, and bind herself by a bond, being in her father's house in her youth;

  • Deut 25:11
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    11When men strive together one with another, and the wife of the one draweth near for to liver 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
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    16Length of days is in her right hand; and in her left hand riches and honour.

  • Prov 31:13
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    13She seeketh wool, and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands.