Wesley's Explanatory Notes
Proverbs 31:27
Looketh well — She diligently observes the management of her domestick business, and the whole carriage of her children and servants.
Looketh well — She diligently observes the management of her domestick business, and the whole carriage of her children and servants.
Verse Proverbs 31:27. _SHE LOOKETH WELL TO THE WAYS OF HER HOUSEHOLD_] 18. She is a _moral_ manager: she takes care that all shall behave themselves well; that none of them shall keep bad company or...
VII. THE WORDS OF KING LEMUEL TAUGHT HIM BY HIS MOTHER CHAPTER 31 The Virtuous Woman “The words of King Lemuel, the prophecy that his mother taught him”; this is the superscription of this chapter. W...
THIRD DIVISION. THE VIRTUOUS WOMAN. Proverbs 31:10. This, the last division of the appendix, is in form an acrostic poem, each verse commencing with a letter of the Heb. alphabet in order. There are...
_looketh well to_ a happy rendering. Lit. KEEPETH WATCH UPON, as in Proverbs 15:3. As Almighty God, from His lofty watch-tower in heaven, observes all the minutest details of the manifold work that is...
VIII. The Virtuous Woman. Chap. Proverbs 31:10-31 This short Appendix differs from the other Sections of the Book of Proverbs in having one subject throughout, and in being in form acrostic or alphab...
TEXT Proverbs 31:22-31 22. She maketh for herself carpets of tapestry; Her clothing is fine linen and purple. 23. Her husband is known in the gates, When he sitteth among the elders of the land....
Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies. The praises of a virtuous woman; forming a Hebrew acrostic. The 22 years begin with the several 22 letters of the Hebrew alphabet c...
THE MOTHER OF LEMUEL. THE EXCELLENT WOMAN 1-9. An exhortation addressed to king Lemuel by his mother, urging him to avoid women and wine. The latter leads to slackness and unfairness in the administr...
LESSONS ABOUT WISDOM PROVERBS _KEITH SIMONS_ CHAPTER 31 V1 These are the words of King Lemuel. This section is a difficult puzzle that his mother taught to him....
Some people behave well in public. But at home, they do not behave well. But this woman does not care whether anyone sees her good works. Her own family see her in private. And they know that she is a...
צֹ֭ופִיָּה הֲלִיכֹ֣ות בֵּיתָ֑הּ וְ לֶ֥חֶם עַ֝צְל֗וּת...
CHAPTER 32 A GOOD WOMAN "O woman-hearts, that keep the days of old In living memory, can you stand back When Christ calls? Shall the heavenly Master lack The serving love, which is your life's fi...
“HER WORKS PRAISE HER” Proverbs 31:10-31 The ideal woman, as portrayed here, is a wife. She is the stay and confidence of her husband. Not only when she comes as a young bride into his home, in the g...
This is the second section of the appendix. There have been many conjectures as to who King Lemuel was, but nothing certainly can be said. It is divided into two parts, the first of which consists of...
_Idle, out of a sense of duty, and not though avarice._...
Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies. The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil. She will do him good and not evil all the d...
THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 10 THROUGH 31. In chapter 10 begin the details which teach those who give ear how to avoid the snares into which the simple might fall, the path to be followe...
SHE LOOKETH WELL TO THE WAYS OF HER HOUSEHOLD,.... The business of her house, her domestic affairs; that her children and servants have convenient food, and in due season; that they have proper clothi...
She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness. Ver. 27. _She looketh well to the ways of her household._] She hath an oar in every boat, an eye in every business...
_She looketh well to her household_ She diligently observes the management of her domestic business, and the whole carriage of her children and servants. Whereby he also intimates, that she spends not...
She looketh well to the ways of her household, wisely arranging and superintending the work of all the servants, AND EATETH NOT THE BREAD OF IDLENESS, being busy both in superintending and in joining...
THE ABC OF THE VIRTUOUS WOMAN...
In THE FINAL CHAPTER of the book has also a peculiar character, King Lemuel is the writer, but not the author, for he simply quotes the words of his mother. Actually, no king of Israel or Judah is kno...
SHE LOOKETH WELL TO THE WAYS OF HER HOUSEHOLD; she diligently observeth the management and progress of her domestic business, and the whole carriage and conversation of her children and servants; wher...
Proverbs 31:27 watches H6822 (H8802) ways H1979 (H8675) H1979 household H1004 eat H398 (H8799) bread...
CONTENTS: Words of King Lemuel on the dangers of intemperance and the worth of a godly woman. CHARACTERS: God, Lemuel, his mother. CONCLUSION: A virtuous woman who has command of her own spirit, who...
Proverbs 31:1. _The words of king Lemuel._ Ancient kings had many names and surnames which embarrass history. The first name of Solomon was Jedidiah, or Jedid-jah, beloved of God. 2 Samuel 12:25. Lemu...
_Who can find a virtuous woman?_ for her price is far above rubies. THE PROPHECY OF LEMUEL’S MOTHER There was never yet a woman who did not wish to have some part in the choice of her son’s wife; an...
PROVERBS—NOTE ON PROVERBS 31:10 An Alphabet of Womanly Excellence. As the esv footnote to v. Proverbs 31:10 explains, this w
CRITICAL NOTES.— PROVERBS 31:10. VIRTUOUS. Literally “_a woman of power_.” RUBIES, rather “_pearls_.” PROVERBS 31:11. HE SHALL HAVE NO NEED, etc. Rather, “_He shall not fail of spoil_.” “Strictly, ‘t...
EXPOSITION PROVERBS 31:1 PART VIII. SECOND APPENDIX TO THE SECOND COLLECTION, containing "the words of Lemuel" on the subjects of impurity and intemperance....
Now the thirty-first proverb are, The words of king Lemuel, the prophecy that his mother taught him (Proverbs 31:1). So these are really the words of King Lemuel's mother unto him. The advice of a go...
1 Thessalonians 4:11; 1 Timothy 5:10; 2 Thessalonians 3:6; Proverbs 14:1;...