Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version She selects wool and flax and works with eager hands. New Living Translation She finds wool and flax and busily spins it. English Standard Version She seeks wool and flax, and works with willing hands. Berean Standard Bible She selects wool and flax and works with eager hands. King James Bible She seeketh wool, and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands. New King James Version She seeks wool and flax, And willingly works with her hands. New American Standard Bible She looks for wool and linen, And works with her hands in delight. NASB 1995 She looks for wool and flax And works with her hands in delight. NASB 1977 She looks for wool and flax, And works with her hands in delight. Legacy Standard Bible She searches for wool and flax And works with her hands in delight. Amplified Bible She looks for wool and flax And works with willing hands in delight. Christian Standard Bible She selects wool and flax and works with willing hands. Holman Christian Standard Bible She selects wool and flax and works with willing hands. American Standard Version She seeketh wool and flax, And worketh willingly with her hands. Aramaic Bible in Plain English She has sought wool and fine linen and her hands have worked according to his pleasure. Brenton Septuagint Translation Gathering wool and flax, she makes it serviceable with her hands. Contemporary English Version and with her own hands she gladly makes clothes. Douay-Rheims Bible She hath sought wool and flax, and hath wrought by the counsel of her hands. English Revised Version She seeketh wool and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands. GOD'S WORD® Translation "She seeks out wool and linen [with care] and works with willing hands. Good News Translation She keeps herself busy making wool and linen cloth. International Standard Version She seeks out wool and flax, working with eager hands. JPS Tanakh 1917 She seeketh wool and flax, And worketh willingly with her hands. Literal Standard Version She has sought wool and flax, | And with delight she works [with] her hands. Majority Standard Bible She selects wool and flax and works with eager hands. New American Bible She seeks out wool and flax and weaves with skillful hands. NET Bible She obtains wool and flax, and she is pleased to work with her hands. New Revised Standard Version She seeks wool and flax, and works with willing hands. New Heart English Bible She seeks wool and flax, and works eagerly with her hands. Webster's Bible Translation She seeketh wool, and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands. World English Bible She seeks wool and flax, and works eagerly with her hands. Young's Literal Translation She hath sought wool and flax, And with delight she worketh with her hands. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context The Virtues of a Noble Woman…12She brings him good and not harm all the days of her life. 13She selects wool and flax and works with eager hands. 14She is like the merchant ships, bringing her food from afar.… Cross References Proverbs 31:12 She brings him good and not harm all the days of her life. Proverbs 31:14 She is like the merchant ships, bringing her food from afar. Treasury of Scripture She seeks wool, and flax, and works willingly with her hands. worketh Genesis 18:6-8 And Abraham hastened into the tent unto Sarah, and said, Make ready quickly three measures of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes upon the hearth… Genesis 24:13,14,18-20 Behold, I stand here by the well of water; and the daughters of the men of the city come out to draw water: … Genesis 29:9,10 And while he yet spake with them, Rachel came with her father's sheep: for she kept them… Jump to Previous Business Delight Eager Eagerly Flax Gets Hands Looks Seeketh Seeks Selects Sought Willing Willingly Wool Worketh Working WorksJump to Next Business Delight Eager Eagerly Flax Gets Hands Looks Seeketh Seeks Selects Sought Willing Willingly Wool Worketh Working WorksProverbs 31 1. Lemuel's lesson of chastity and temperance6. The afflicted are to be comforted and defended 10. The praise and properties of a good wife (13) And worketh willingly with her hands.--Literally, with the pleasure or willingness of her hands; they, as it were, catch her willing spirit.Verse 13. - DALETH. She seeketh wool, and flax. She pays attention to these things, as materials for clothing and domestic uses. Wool has been used for clothing from the earliest times (see Leviticus 13:47; Job 31:20, etc.), and flax was largely cultivated for the manufacture of linen, the processes of drying, peeling, hackling, and spinning being well understood (see Joshua 2:6; Isaiah 19:9; Jeremiah 13:1, etc.). The prohibition about mixing wool and flax in a garment (Deuteronomy 22:11) was probably based on the idea that all mixtures made by the art of man are polluted, and that what is pure and simple, such as it is in its natural state, is alone proper for the use of the people of God. And worketh willingly with her hands; or, she worketh with her hands' pleasure; i.e. with willing hands. The rendering of the Revised Version margin, after Hitzig, "She worketh at the business of her hands," is feeble, and does not say much. What is meant is that she not only labours diligently herself, but finds pleasure in doing so, and this, not because she has none to help her, and is forced to do her own work (on the contrary, she is represented as rich, and at the head of a large household), but because she considers that labour is a duty for all, and that idleness is a transgression of a universal law. Septuagint, "Weaving (μηρυομένη) wool and flax; she makes it useful with her hands." Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew She selectsדָּ֭רְשָׁה (dā·rə·šāh) Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person feminine singular Strong's 1875: To tread, frequent, to follow, to seek, ask, to worship wool צֶ֣מֶר (ṣe·mer) Noun - masculine singular Strong's 6785: Wool and flax וּפִשְׁתִּ֑ים (ū·p̄iš·tîm) Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine plural Strong's 6593: Flax, linen and works וַ֝תַּ֗עַשׂ (wat·ta·‘aś) Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person feminine singular Strong's 6213: To do, make with eager בְּחֵ֣פֶץ (bə·ḥê·p̄eṣ) Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct Strong's 2656: Pleasure, desire, a valuable thing, a matter hands. כַּפֶּֽיהָ׃ (kap·pe·hā) Noun - fdc | third person feminine singular Strong's 3709: Hollow or flat of the hand, palm, sole (of the foot), a pan Links Proverbs 31:13 NIVProverbs 31:13 NLT Proverbs 31:13 ESV Proverbs 31:13 NASB Proverbs 31:13 KJV Proverbs 31:13 BibleApps.com Proverbs 31:13 Biblia Paralela Proverbs 31:13 Chinese Bible Proverbs 31:13 French Bible Proverbs 31:13 Catholic Bible OT Poetry: Proverbs 31:13 She seeks wool and flax and works (Prov. 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