Proverbs 31:2

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

`What, my son? and what, son of my womb? And what, son of my vows?

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Referenced Verses

  • Isa 49:15 : 15 Forget doth a woman her suckling, The loved one -- the son of her womb? Yea, these forget -- but I -- I forget not thee.
  • 1 Sam 1:11 : 11 and voweth a vow, and saith, `Jehovah of Hosts, if Thou dost certainly look on the affliction of Thy handmaid, and hast remembered me, and dost not forget Thy handmaid, and hast given to Thy handmaid seed of men -- then I have given him to Jehovah all days of his life, and a razor doth not go up upon his head.'
  • 1 Sam 1:28 : 28 and also I have caused him to be asked for Jehovah, all the days that he hath lived -- he is asked for Jehovah;' and he boweth himself there before Jehovah.

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  • 1 Words of Lemuel a king, a declaration that his mother taught him:

  • 3 Give not to women thy strength, And thy ways to wiping away of kings.

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    25 Rejoice doth thy father and thy mother, Yea, she that bare thee is joyful.

    26 Give, my son, thy heart to me, And let thine eyes watch my ways.

  • 20 Keep, my son, the command of thy father, And leave not the law of thy mother.

  • 3 For, a son I have been to my father -- tender, And an only one before my mother.

  • 8 Hear, my son, the instruction of thy father, And leave not the law of thy mother,

  • 10 Wo `to' him who is saying to a father, `What dost thou beget?' Or to a wife, `What dost thou bring forth?

  • 18 (But from my youth He grew up with me as `with' a father, And from the belly of my mother I am led.)

  • 8 `And now, my son, hearken to my voice, to that which I am commanding thee:

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    21 and I rise in the morning to suckle my son, and lo, dead; and I consider concerning it in the morning, and lo, it was not my son whom I did bear.'

    22 And the other woman saith, `Nay, but my son `is' the living, and thy son the dead;' and this `one' saith, `Nay, but thy son `is' the dead, and my son the living.' And they speak before the king.

    23 And the king saith, `This `one' saith, This `is' my son, the living, and thy son `is' the dead; and that `one' saith, Nay, but thy son `is' the dead, and my son the living.'

  • 20 And why dost thou magnify thyself, My son, with a stranger? And embrace the bosom of a strange woman?

  • 28 And the king saith to her, `What -- to thee?' and she saith, `This woman said unto me, Give thy son, and we eat him to-day, and my son we eat to-morrow;

  • 1 Proverbs of Solomon. A wise son causeth a father to rejoice, And a foolish son `is' an affliction to his mother.

  • 11 Be wise, my son, and rejoice my heart. And I return my reproacher a word.

  • 7 And now, ye sons, hearken to me, And turn not from sayings of my mouth.

  • 1 My son! my law forget not, And my commands let thy heart keep,

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    26 And the woman whose son `is' the living one saith unto the king (for her bowels yearned over her son), yea, she saith, `O, my lord, give to her the living child, and put it not at all to death;' and this `one' saith, `Let it be neither mine or thine -- cut `it'.'

    27 And the king answereth and saith, `Give ye to her the living child, and put it not at all to death; she `is' its mother.'

  • 15 My son, if thy heart hath been wise, My heart rejoiceth, even mine,

  • 1 My son, if thou dost accept my sayings, And my commands dost lay up with thee,

  • 25 A provocation to his father `is' a foolish son, And bitterness to her that bare him.

  • 3 Lo, an inheritance of Jehovah `are' sons, A reward `is' the fruit of the womb.

  • 2 Plead ye with your mother -- plead, (For she `is' not My wife, and I `am' not her husband,) And she turneth her whoredoms from before her, And her adulteries from between her breasts,

  • 17 And she saith to him, `My lord, thou hast sworn by Jehovah thy God to thy handmaid: Surely Solomon thy son doth reign after me, and he doth sit on my throne;

  • 1 My son! to my wisdom give attention, To mine understanding incline thine ear,

  • Ezek 23:1-2
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    69%

    1 And there is a word of Jehovah unto me, saying, `Son of man,

    2 Two women were daughters of one mother,

  • 24 And now, ye sons, hearken to me, And give attention to sayings of my mouth.

  • 3 `And when a woman voweth a vow to Jehovah, and hath bound a bond in the house of her father in her youth,

  • 1 My son! keep my sayings, And my commands lay up with thee.

  • 56 `The tender woman in thee, and the delicate, who hath not tried the sole of her foot to place on the ground because of delicateness and because of tenderness -- her eye is evil against the husband of her bosom, and against her son, and against her daughter,

  • 22 Hearken to thy father, who begat thee, And despise not thy mother when she hath become old.

  • 18 `When a man hath a son apostatizing and rebellious -- he is not hearkening to the voice of his father, and to the voice of his mother, and they have chastised him, and he doth not hearken unto them --

  • 20 If his loins have not blessed me, And from the fleece of my sheep He doth not warm himself,

  • 2 and he saith to his mother, `The eleven hundred silverlings which have been taken of thine, and `of which' thou hast sworn, and also spoken in mine ears; lo, the silver `is' with me, I have taken it;' and his mother saith, `Blessed `is' my son of Jehovah.'

  • 13 Pangs of a travailing woman come to him, He `is' a son not wise, For he remaineth not the time for the breaking forth of sons.

  • 20 My son, to my words give attention, To my sayings incline thine ear,

  • 27 Cease, my son, to hear instruction -- To err from sayings of knowledge.

  • 17 and the one woman saith, `O, my lord, I and this woman are dwelling in one house, and I bring forth with her, in the house;

  • 22 And king Solomon answereth and saith to his mother, `And why art thou asking Abishag the Shunammite for Adonijah? also ask for him the kingdom -- for he `is' mine elder brother -- even for him, and for Abiathar the priest, and for Joab son of Zeruiah.'

  • 13 and his mother saith to him, `On me thy disesteem, my son; only hearken to my voice, and go, take for me.'

  • 20 See, O Jehovah, and look attentively, To whom Thou hast acted thus, Do women eat their fruit, infants of a handbreadth? Slain in the sanctuary of the Lord are priest and prophet?

  • Job 31:14-15
    2 verses
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    14 Then what do I do when God ariseth? And when He doth inspect, What do I answer Him?

    15 Did not He that made me in the womb make him? Yea, prepare us in the womb doth One.

  • 27 for this youth I prayed, and Jehovah doth give to me my petition which I asked of Him;

  • 28 and hast not suffered me to kiss my sons and my daughters? -- now thou hast acted foolishly in doing `so';