◄ Proverbs 31:16 ►
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King James Version
She considereth a field, and buyeth it: with the fruit of her hands she planteth a vineyard.

Darby Bible Translation
She considereth a field, and acquireth it; of the fruit of her hands she planteth a vineyard.

World English Bible
She considers a field, and buys it. With the fruit of her hands, she plants a vineyard.

Young's Literal Translation
She hath considered a field, and taketh it, From the fruit of her hands she hath planted a vineyard.

Proverbs 31:16 Parallel
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King James Translators' Notes

buyeth: Heb. taketh

Geneva Study Bible

She considereth a field, and {k} buyeth it: with the fruit of her hands she planteth a vineyard.

(k) She purchases it with the gains of her travail.Proverbs 31:16 Parallel Commentaries

Library
Of the Practice of Piety in Fasting.
There are divers kinds of fasting--First, A constrained fast, as when men either have not food to eat, as in the famine of Samaria (2 Kings vi. 25;) or, having food, cannot eat it for heaviness or sickness, as it befel them who were in the ship with St. Paul (Acts xxvii. 33.) This is rather famine than fasting. Secondly, A natural fast, which we undertake physically, for the health of our body. Thirdly, A civil fast, which the magistrate enjoins for the better maintenance of the commonwealth. Fourthly, …
Lewis Bayly—The Practice of Piety

Proverbs
Many specimens of the so-called Wisdom Literature are preserved for us in the book of Proverbs, for its contents are by no means confined to what we call proverbs. The first nine chapters constitute a continuous discourse, almost in the manner of a sermon; and of the last two chapters, ch. xxx. is largely made up of enigmas, and xxxi. is in part a description of the good housewife. All, however, are rightly subsumed under the idea of wisdom, which to the Hebrew had always moral relations. The Hebrew …
John Edgar McFadyen—Introduction to the Old Testament

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