Proverbs 30:23

World English Bible (2000)

for an unloved woman when she is married; and a handmaid 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. A wife's quarrels are a continual dripping.
  • Prov 21:9 : 9 It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than to share a house with a contentious woman.
  • 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 on a rainy day and a contentious wife are alike:
  • Prov 29:21 : 21 He who pampers his servant from youth will have him become a son in the end.

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  • Prov 30:20-22
    3 verses
    76%

    20 "So is the way of an adulterous woman: she eats and wipes her mouth, and says, 'I have done nothing wrong.'

    21 "For three things the earth tremble, and under four, it can't bear up:

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

  • Prov 31:23
    72%

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

  • Job 31:10-11
    2 verses
    71%

    10 then let my wife grind for another, and let others sleep with her.

    11 For that would be a heinous crime. Yes, it would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges:

  • Deut 22:13-14
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    71%

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

    14 and accuses her of shameful things, and brings up an evil name on her, and says, "I took this woman, and when I came near to her, I didn't find in her the tokens of virginity;"

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

  • Eccl 7:26
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    26 I find more bitter than death the woman whose heart is snares and traps, whose hands are chains. Whoever pleases God shall escape from her; but the sinner will be ensnared by her.

  • Ezek 16:32
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    32 A wife who commits adultery! who takes strangers instead of her husband!

  • Deut 24:1-3
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    1 When a man takes a wife, and marries her, then it shall be, if she find no favor in his eyes, because he has found some unseemly thing in her, that he shall write her a bill of divorce, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.

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

    3 If the latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of divorce, 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
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    30 You shall betroth 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 use its fruit.

  • Deut 21:15
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    15 If 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 firstborn son be hers who was hated;

  • Prov 27:15-16
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    15 A continual dropping on a rainy day and a contentious wife are alike:

    16 restraining her is like restraining the wind, or like grasping oil in his right hand.

  • Prov 21:9
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    9 It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than to share a house with a contentious woman.

  • Prov 19:13-14
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    13 A foolish son is the calamity of his father. A wife's quarrels are a continual dripping.

    14 House and riches are an inheritance from fathers, but a prudent wife is from Yahweh.

  • Prov 31:30-31
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    30 Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain; but a woman who fears Yahweh, she shall be praised.

    31 Give her of the fruit of her hands! Let her works praise her in the gates!

  • Deut 28:56
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    56 The tender and delicate woman among you, who would not adventure to set the sole of her foot on 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
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    27 For a prostitute is a deep pit; and a wayward wife is a narrow well.

  • Prov 11:22
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    22 Like a gold ring in a pig's snout, is a beautiful woman who lacks discretion.

  • Prov 21:19
    69%

    19 It 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 loud and defiant. Her feet don't stay in her house.

  • Num 30:10
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    10 "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 looks well to the ways of her household, and doesn't eat the bread of idleness.

  • Exod 21:7
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    7 "If a man sells his daughter to be a female servant, she shall not go out as the male servants do.

  • Exod 21:9-10
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    9 If he marries her to his son, he shall deal with her as a daughter.

    10 If he takes another wife to himself, he shall not diminish her food, her clothing, and her marital rights.

  • Prov 12:4
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    4 A worthy woman is the crown of her husband, but a disgraceful wife is as rottenness in his bones.

  • Prov 30:24
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    24 "There are four things which are little on the earth, but they are exceedingly wise:

  • Exod 21:4
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    4 If his master gives him a wife and she bears 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%

    13 "If I have despised the cause of my male servant or of my female servant, when they contended with me;

  • Prov 31:15
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    15 She rises also while it is yet night, gives food to her household, and portions for her servant girls.

  • Prov 23:33
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    33 Your eyes will see strange things, and your mind will imagine confusing things.

  • Esth 1:17
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    17 For this deed of the queen will become known to all women, causing them to show contempt for their husbands, when it is reported, 'King Ahasuerus commanded Vashti the queen to be brought in before him, but she didn't come.'

  • Prov 6:26
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    26 For a prostitute reduces you to a piece of bread. The adulteress hunts for your precious life.

  • Num 30:6
    69%

    6 "If she is [married] to a husband, while her vows are on her, or the rash utterance of her lips, with which she has bound her soul,

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

  • Prov 9:13
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    13 The foolish woman is loud, Undisciplined, and knows nothing.

  • Num 30:3
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    3 "Also when a woman vows a vow to Yahweh, and binds herself by a bond, being in her father's house, in her youth,

  • Deut 25:11
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    11 When men strive together one with another, and the wife of the one draws near to deliver her husband out of the hand of him who strikes him, and puts forth her hand, and takes him by the secrets;

  • Prov 3:16
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    16 Length of days is in her right hand. In her left hand are riches and honor.

  • Prov 31:13
    68%

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