Proverbs 31:14
12 She brings him good and not harm all the days of her life.
13 She selects wool and flax and works with eager hands.
She is like the merchant ships, bringing her food from afar.
15 She rises while it is still night to provide food for her household and portions for her maidservants.
16 She appraises a field and buys it; from her earnings she plants a vineyard.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- She is like the merchant ships, bringing her food from afar.
- KJV
- She is like the merchants’ ships; she bringeth her food from afar.
- WEB
- She is like the merchant ships. She brings her bread from afar.
- ASV
- She is like the merchant-ships; She bringeth her bread from afar.
- DARBY
- She is like the merchants' ships: she bringeth her food from afar;
- BLB
- She is like the ships of a merchant—from afar she brings [in] her bread.
- ÅB
- Hun er som en kjøpmanns skip; hun henter sitt brød langveisfra.
- OTB
- Hun er som en flåte av handelsskip, som bringer sin mat fra det fjerne.
- B1930
- Hun er som en kjøbmanns skib; hun henter sitt brød langveisfra.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Ezekiel 27:3–36
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.’
Read in context1 Kings 9:26–28
King Solomon also assembled a fleet of ships at Ezion-geber, which is near Eloth in Edom, on the shore of the Red Sea.
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