The Virtues of a Noble Woman
Proverbs 31:12
In 11 translations
- BSB
- She brings him good and not harm all the days of her life.
- KJV
- She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life.
- WEB
- She does him good, and not harm, all the days of her life.
- ASV
- She doeth him good and not evil All the days of her life.
- LSV
- She has done him good, and not evil, || All [the] days of her life.
- YLT
- She hath done him good, and not evil, All days of her life.
- DBY
- She doeth him good, and not evil, all the days of her life.
- DRC
- She will render him good, and not evil, all the days of her life.
- GNV
- She will doe him good, and not euill all the dayes of her life.
- JPS
- She doeth him good and not evil all the days of her life.
- LXXE
- For she employs all her living for her husband's good.
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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.
Original-language editions
- WLC
- גְּמָלַ֣תְהוּ ט֣וֹב וְלֹא־רָ֑ע כֹּ֝֗ל יְמֵ֣י חַיֶּֽיה׃We agree with both BHS 1997 and BHQ on an unexpected reading.
- LXX-Br
- Ἐνεργεῖ γὰρ τῷ ἀνδρὶ εἰς ἀγαθὰ πάντα τὸν βίον.
In the reference works topics that cite this verse
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Cross-references most cited first
- 1 Samuel 25:18–22Then Abigail hurried and took two hundred loaves of bread, two skins of wine, five butchered sheep, five seahs of roasted grain, a hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs. She loaded them on donkeys…
- 1 Samuel 25:26–27Now, my lord, as surely as the LORD lives and you yourself live, the LORD has held you back from coming to bloodshed and avenging yourself with your own hand. May your enemies and those who seek harm for my lord be…
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