She is like the merchants’ ships; she bringeth her food from afar.
She is like the merchant-ships; She bringeth her bread from afar.
She hath been as ships of the merchant, From afar she bringeth in her bread.
She is like the merchants' ships: she bringeth her food from afar;
Proverbs — Gnomic wisdom — sayings, instructions, and the binary of wisdom vs. folly. Fear of the LORD as the integrative theme; the virtuous woman of Prov 31 as the book's closing portrait of wisdom embodied.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
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She is like the merchant ships,....
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)reformed
She is like the merchants ships - 3. She acts like merchants. If she buy any thing for her household, she sells sufficient of her own manufactures to pay for it; if she imports, she exports: and she sends articles of her own manufacturing or produce to distant countries; she traffics with the neighboring tribes.
Adam Clarke· Commentary on the Bible, 1832evangelical
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first — the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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2 Chronicles 9:10(The servants of Hiram and of Solomon who brought gold from Ophir also brought algum wood and precious stones.
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So Hiram sent him ships captained by his servants, along with crews of experienced sailors. They went with Solomon’s servants to Ophir and acquired from there 450 talents of gold, which they delivered to…
(The fleet of Hiram that brought gold from Ophir also brought from Ophir a great cargo of almug wood and precious stones.
And Hiram sent his servants, men who knew the sea, to serve in the fleet with Solomon’s servants.
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Proverbs 31:24She makes linen garments and sells them; she delivers sashes to the merchants.
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Now there was a rich man dressed in purple and fine linen, who lived each day in joyous splendor.
Aram was your customer because of your many products; they exchanged turquoise, purple, embroidered work, fine linen, coral, and rubies for your wares.
“Let me tell you a riddle,” Samson said to them. “If you can solve it for me within the seven days of the feast, I will give you thirty linen garments and thirty sets…
She selects wool and flax and works with eager hands.
Solomon’s horses were imported from Egypt and Kue; the royal merchants purchased them from Kue.
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The verses this one reaches4
Tell Tyre, who dwells at the gateway to the sea, merchant of the peoples on many coasts, that this is what the Lord GOD says: You have said, O Tyre, ‘I am perfect in beauty.’
King Solomon also assembled a fleet of ships at Ezion-geber, which is near Eloth in Edom, on the shore of the Red Sea.
She makes linen garments and sells them; she delivers sashes to the merchants.
(The servants of Hiram and of Solomon who brought gold from Ophir also brought algum wood and precious stones.
