en_wbms - Pro 31 - Ozzuu Bible

¹ The words of Lemuel, the king; the vision by which his mother taught him.

² What, my darling? what, the darling of my womb? what, the darling of my desires?

³ Give thou not thy chattel [or thy substance] to women, and thy riches to do away kings.

⁴ A! Lemuel, do not thou give wine to kings; for no privacy there is, where drunkenness reigneth.

⁵ Lest peradventure they drink, and forget dooms, and change the cause of the sons of a poor man.

⁶ Give ye cider to them that mourn, and wine to them that be of bitter soul.

⁷ Drink they, and forget they their neediness; and think they no more on their sorrow.

⁸ Open thy mouth for a dumb man, and open thy mouth for the causes of all sons that pass forth.

⁹ Deem thou that that is just, and deem thou a needy man and a poor man.

¹⁰ Who shall find a strong woman? the price of her is [a] far, and from the last [or utmost] ends.

¹¹ The heart of her husband trusteth in her; and he shall not have need to robberies.

¹² She shall yield to him good, and not evil, in all the days of her life.

¹³ She sought wool and flax; and wrought by the counsel of her hands.

¹⁴ She is made as the ship of a merchant, that beareth his bread from [a] far.

¹⁵ And she rose by night, and gave lifelode to her menials, and meats to her handmaidens.

¹⁶ She beheld a field, and bought it; of the fruit of her hands she planted a vinery [or a vineyard].

¹⁷ She girded her loins with strength, and made strong her arm.

¹⁸ She tasted, and saw, that her merchandise was good; her lantern shall not be quenched in the night.

¹⁹ She put her hands to the wharve, and her fingers took the spindle.

²⁰ She opened her hand to the needy man, and stretched forth her hands to a poor man.

²¹ She shall not dread for her house of the colds of snow; for all her menials be clothed with double clothes.

²² She made to her a ray-cloth; bis, either white silk, and purple is the cloth[ing] of her.

²³ Her husband is noble in the gates, when he sitteth with the senators of [the] earth.

²⁴ She made linen cloth, and sold it; and gave a girdle to a merchant.

²⁵ Strength and fairness is the clothing of her; and she shall laugh in the last day.

²⁶ She opened her mouth to wisdom; and the law of mercy is in her tongue.

²⁷ She beheld the paths of her house; and she ate not bread idly.

²⁸ Her sons rose up, and preached her most blessed; her husband rose, and praised her.

²⁹ Many daughters gathered riches; thou passedest them all.

³⁰ Fairness is deceivable grace, and vain; that woman, that dreadeth the Lord, [she] shall be praised.

³¹ Give ye to her of the fruit of her hands; and her works praise her in the gates.