Proverbs 30:23
For an odious woman when she is married; and an handmaid that is heir to her mistress.
Proverbs 30:23 in other translations
| BSB | an unloved woman who marries, and a maidservant who supplants her mistress. |
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| WEB | for an unloved woman when she is married, and a servant who is heir to her mistress. |
| ASV | For an odious woman when she is married; And a handmaid that is heir to her mistress. |
| YLT | For a hated one when she ruleth, And a maid-servant when she succeedeth her mistress. |
| DARBY | under an odious woman when she is married, and a handmaid when she is heir to her mistress. |
| BBE | A hated woman when she is married; and a servant-girl who takes the place of her master's wife. |
| Webster | For an odious woman when she is married; and a handmaid that is heir to her mistress. |
What does Proverbs 30:23 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Proverbs 30:21-23
21-23. Pride and cruelty, the undue exaltation of those unfit to hold power, produce those vices which disquiet society (compare Pr 19:10; 28:3).
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Proverbs 30:21-23
Four sorts of persons are very troublesome. Men of low origin and base spirit, who, getting authority, become tyrants. Foolish and violent men indulging in excesses. A woman of a contentious spirit and vicious habits. A servant who has obtained undue influence. Let those whom Providence has advanced from low beginnings, carefully watch against that sin which most easily besets them.
Proverbs 30:23 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Proverbs 30:23
- Proverbs 21:19
It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry woman.
- Proverbs 27:15
A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike.
- Proverbs 21:9
It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house.
- Proverbs 29:21
He that delicately bringeth up his servant from a child shall have him become his son at the length.
- Proverbs 19:13
A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.
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Context
- Proverbs 30:22
For a servant when he reigneth; and a fool when he is filled with meat;
- Proverbs 30:23
For an odious woman when she is married; and an handmaid that is heir to her mistress.
- Proverbs 30:24
There be four things which are little upon the earth, but they are exceeding wise:
Proverbs 30:23 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Por la aborrecida cuando se casare; y por la sierva cuando heredare á su señora. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | sous la femme odieuse quand elle se marie, et la servante quand elle hérite de sa maîtresse. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | unter einem unleidlichen Weibe, wenn sie zur Frau genommen wird, und einer Magd, wenn sie ihre Herrin beerbt. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | per odiosam mulierem, cum in matrimonio fuerit assumpta; et per ancillam, cum fuerit hæres dominæ suæ. |