Proverbs 30:23

KJV1611 – Modern English

For an unloved woman when she is married, and a maidservant who 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 dripping.
  • Prov 21:9 : 9 It is better to live in a corner of the housetop than in a spacious house with a contentious woman.
  • Prov 21:19 : 19 It is better to live in the wilderness than with a contentious and angry woman.
  • Prov 27:15 : 15 A continual dripping on a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike.
  • Prov 29:21 : 21 He who delicately brings up his servant from childhood shall have him as a son in the end.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Prov 30:20-22
    3 verses
    76%

    20Such is the way of an adulterous woman; she eats and wipes her mouth and says, I have done no wrong.

    21For three things the earth is disturbed, and for four it cannot bear:

    22For a servant when he reigns, and a fool when he is filled with food;

  • Prov 31:23
    72%

    23Her husband is known in the gates, when he sits among the elders of the land.

  • Job 31:10-11
    2 verses
    71%

    10Then let my wife grind for another, and let others bow down upon her.

    11For this would be a heinous crime; yes, it is an iniquity to be judged.

  • Deut 22:13-14
    2 verses
    71%

    13If any man takes a wife and goes in to her and hates her,

    14And gives occasions of speech against her, and brings up an evil name upon her, and says, I took this woman, and when I came to her, I found her not a virgin.

  • Prov 25:24
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    24It is better to dwell in the corner of a housetop than in a wide house with a contentious woman.

  • Eccl 7:26
    71%

    26And I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands are chains. He who pleases God shall escape from her, but the sinner shall be trapped by her.

  • Ezek 16:32
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    32But as a wife that commits adultery, who takes strangers instead of her husband!

  • Deut 24:1-3
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    71%

    1When a man takes a wife and marries her, and it comes to pass that she finds no favor in his eyes, because he has found some uncleanness in her: then let him write her a certificate of divorce, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.

    2And when she has departed from his house, she may go and be another man's wife.

    3And if the latter husband dislikes her, and writes her a certificate of divorce, and gives it in her hand, and sends her out of his house; or if the latter husband dies, who took her to be his wife;

  • Deut 28:30
    71%

    30You shall marry a wife, and another man shall lie with her: you shall build a house, and you shall not dwell therein: you shall plant a vineyard, and shall not gather the grapes thereof.

  • Deut 21:15
    70%

    15If a man has two wives, one beloved and another hated, and they have borne him children, both the beloved and the hated; and if the firstborn son is hers that was hated,

  • Prov 27:15-16
    2 verses
    70%

    15A continual dripping on a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike.

    16Whoever hides her hides the wind, and the ointment of his right hand reveals itself.

  • Prov 21:9
    70%

    9It is better to live in a corner of the housetop than in a spacious house with a contentious woman.

  • Prov 19:13-14
    2 verses
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    13A foolish son is the calamity of his father, and the contentions of a wife are a continual dripping.

    14House and riches are the inheritance of fathers, and a prudent wife is from the LORD.

  • Prov 31:30-31
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    70%

    30Favor is deceitful, and beauty is vain, but a woman who fears the LORD, she shall be praised.

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

  • Deut 28:56
    70%

    56The tender and delicate woman among you, who would not venture 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 prostitute 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 lovely woman without discretion.

  • Prov 21:19
    69%

    19It is better to live in the wilderness than with a contentious and angry woman.

  • Prov 7:11
    69%

    11She is loud and stubborn; her feet do not stay at home:

  • 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
    69%

    27She watches over the ways of her household and does not eat the bread of idleness.

  • Exod 21:7
    69%

    7And if a man sells his daughter to be a maidservant, she shall not go out as the menservants do.

  • Exod 21:9-10
    2 verses
    69%

    9And if he has betrothed her to his son, he shall deal with her according to the custom of daughters.

    10If he takes another wife, he shall not diminish her food, her clothing, or her marriage rights.

  • Prov 12:4
    69%

    4A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband, but she who causes shame is as rottenness in his bones.

  • Prov 30:24
    69%

    24There are four things which are small on the earth, but they are exceedingly wise:

  • Exod 21:4
    69%

    4If his master has given him a wife, and she has borne 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 manservant or my maidservant, when they contended with me;

  • Prov 31:15
    69%

    15She rises also while it is yet night, and provides food for her household and portions for her maidens.

  • Prov 23:33
    69%

    33Your eyes shall see strange things, and your heart shall utter perverse things.

  • Esth 1:17
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    17For the queen's actions shall be made known to all women, so that they will despise their husbands in their eyes, when it shall be reported,

  • Prov 6:26
    69%

    26For by means of a harlot a man is brought to a piece of bread: and the adulteress will hunt for the precious life.

  • Num 30:6
    69%

    6And if she had a husband when she vowed, or uttered anything out of her lips with which she bound her soul,

  • Prov 5:4
    69%

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

  • Prov 9:13
    68%

    13A foolish woman is loud: she is simple, and knows nothing.

  • Num 30:3
    68%

    3If a woman also makes a vow to the LORD, and binds herself by a bond, being in her father's house in her youth,

  • Deut 25:11
    68%

    11When men fight with each other, and the wife of one draws near to rescue her husband from the hand of him who strikes him, and puts out her hand, and seizes him by his private parts,

  • Prov 3:16
    68%

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

  • Prov 31:13
    68%

    13She seeks wool and flax, and works willingly with her hands.