Proverbs 31:14
12 She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life.
13 She seeketh wool, and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands.
She is like the merchants’ ships; she bringeth her food from afar.
15 She riseth also while it is yet night, and giveth meat to her household, and a portion to her maidens.
16 She considereth a field, and buyeth it: with the fruit of her hands she planteth 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
And say unto Tyrus, O thou that art situate at the entry of the sea, which art a merchant of the people for many isles, Thus saith the Lord GOD; O Tyrus, thou hast said, I am of perfect beauty.
Read in context1 Kings 9:26–28
And king Solomon made a navy of ships in Ezion-geber, which is beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red sea, in the land of Edom.
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