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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.

Word by word Hebrew · tap a word

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.

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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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