Proverbs 31:13 NIV: She selects wool and flax and works with eager hands.

Proverbs 31:13

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New International Version (© 2011)
She selects wool and flax and works with eager hands.

King James Bible
She seeketh wool, and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands.

American Standard Version
She seeketh wool and flax, And worketh willingly with her hands.

Young's Literal Translation
She hath sought wool and flax, And with delight she worketh with her hands.

Proverbs 31:13 Additional Translations
Clarke's Commentary on the Bible

She seeketh wood and flax, and worketh willingly, etc. -

II. This is the second part of her character, giving the particulars of which it is composed.

1. She did not buy ready woven cloth: she procured the raw material, if wool, most probably from her own flocks; if flax, most probably from her own fields.

2. Here she manufactured; for she worketh willingly with her hands. And all her labor is a cheerful service; her will, her heart, is in it.

It needs no arguments to prove that women, even of the highest ranks, among the Greeks, Romans, and Israelites, worked with their hands at every kind of occupation necessary for the support of the family. This kind of employment was not peculiar to the virtuous woman in the text.

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