Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version She is like the merchant ships, bringing her food from afar. New Living Translation She is like a merchant’s ship, bringing her food from afar. English Standard Version She is like the ships of the merchant; she brings her food from afar. Berean Standard Bible She is like the merchant ships, bringing her food from afar. King James Bible She is like the merchants' ships; she bringeth her food from afar. New King James Version She is like the merchant ships, She brings her food from afar. New American Standard Bible She is like merchant ships; She brings her food from afar. NASB 1995 She is like merchant ships; She brings her food from afar. NASB 1977 She is like merchant ships; She brings her food from afar. Legacy Standard Bible She is like merchant ships; She brings her food from afar. Amplified Bible She is like the merchant ships [abounding with treasure]; She brings her [household’s] food from far away. Christian Standard Bible She is like the merchant ships, bringing her food from far away. Holman Christian Standard Bible She is like the merchant ships, bringing her food from far away. American Standard Version She is like the merchant-ships; She bringeth her bread from afar. Aramaic Bible in Plain English She has been like a merchant's ship that brings its merchandise from far away. Brenton Septuagint Translation She is like a ship trading from a distance: so she procures her livelihood. Contemporary English Version She is like a sailing ship that brings food from across the sea. Douay-Rheims Bible She is like the merchant's ship, she bringeth her bread from afar. English Revised Version She is like the merchant-ships; she bringeth her food from afar. GOD'S WORD® Translation She is like merchant ships. She brings her food from far away. Good News Translation She brings home food from out-of-the-way places, as merchant ships do. International Standard Version She is like a seagoing ship that brings her food from far away. JPS Tanakh 1917 She is like the merchant-ships; She bringeth her food from afar. Literal Standard Version She has been as ships of the merchant, | She brings in her bread from afar. Majority Standard Bible She is like the merchant ships, bringing her food from afar. New American Bible Like a merchant fleet, she secures her provisions from afar. NET Bible She is like the merchant ships; she brings her food from afar. New Revised Standard Version She is like the ships of the merchant, she brings her food from far away. New Heart English Bible She is like the merchant ships. She brings her bread from afar. Webster's Bible Translation She is like the merchant's ships; she bringeth her food from afar. World English Bible She is like the merchant ships. She brings her bread from afar. Young's Literal Translation She hath been as ships of the merchant, From afar she bringeth in her bread. Additional Translations ... Context The Virtues of a Noble Woman…13She selects wool and flax and works with eager hands. 14She is like the merchant ships, bringing her food from afar. 15She rises while it is still night to provide food for her household and portions for her maidservants.… Cross References Proverbs 31:13 She selects wool and flax and works with eager hands. Ezekiel 27:25 The ships of Tarshish carried your merchandise. And you were filled with heavy cargo in the heart of the sea. Treasury of Scripture She is like the merchants' ships; she brings her food from afar. Proverbs 31:24 She maketh fine linen, and selleth it; and delivereth girdles unto the merchant. 1 Kings 9:26-28 And king Solomon made a navy of ships in Eziongeber, which is beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red sea, in the land of Edom… 2 Chronicles 9:10 And the servants also of Huram, and the servants of Solomon, which brought gold from Ophir, brought algum trees and precious stones. Jump to Previous Afar Bread Far Food Getting Merchant Merchants ShipsJump to Next Afar Bread Far Food Getting Merchant Merchants ShipsProverbs 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 (14) She bringeth her food from afar.--Looks for opportunities of buying cheaply at a distance from home, instead of paying a larger price on the spot.Verse 14. - HE. She is like the merchants' ships. She is like them in that she extends her operations beyond her own immediate neighbourhood, and bringeth her food from afar, buying in the best markets and on advantageous terms, without regard to distance, and being always on the look out to make honest profit. Septuagint, "She is like a ship trading from a distance, and she herself gathereth her livelihood." The expressions in the text point to active commercial operations by sea as well as land, such as we know to have been undertaken by Solomon, Jehoshaphat, and others (1 Kings 9:26; 1 Kings 22:48), and such as the Hebrews must have noticed in the Phoenician cities, Sidon and Tyre. Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew She isהָ֭יְתָה (hā·yə·ṯāh) Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person feminine singular Strong's 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, be like the merchant סוֹחֵ֑ר (sō·w·ḥêr) Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular Strong's 5503: To go around or about, travel about ships, כָּאֳנִיּ֣וֹת (kā·’o·nî·yō·wṯ) Preposition-k | Noun - feminine plural construct Strong's 591: A ship bringing תָּבִ֥יא (tā·ḇî) Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - third person feminine singular Strong's 935: To come in, come, go in, go her food לַחְמָֽהּ׃ (laḥ·māh) Noun - masculine singular construct | third person feminine singular Strong's 3899: Food, bread, grain from afar. מִ֝מֶּרְחָ֗ק (mim·mer·ḥāq) Preposition-m | Noun - masculine singular Strong's 4801: Remoteness, a distant place, from afar Links Proverbs 31:14 NIVProverbs 31:14 NLT Proverbs 31:14 ESV Proverbs 31:14 NASB Proverbs 31:14 KJV Proverbs 31:14 BibleApps.com Proverbs 31:14 Biblia Paralela Proverbs 31:14 Chinese Bible Proverbs 31:14 French Bible Proverbs 31:14 Catholic Bible OT Poetry: Proverbs 31:14 She is like the merchant ships (Prov. 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