Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price {is} far above rubies.

A sound heart {is} the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones.

Every wise woman buildeth her house: but the foolish plucketh it down with her hands.

{It is} better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house. {a brawling...: Heb. a woman of contentions} {a wide...: Heb. an house of society}

Nevertheless neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man, in the Lord.

{It is} better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry woman. {in...: Heb. in the land of the desert}

A foolish son {is} the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife {are} a continual dropping.

A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike.

For a man indeed ought not to cover {his} head, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man.

When I heard, my belly trembled; my lips quivered at the voice: rottenness entered into my bones, and I trembled in myself, that I might rest in the day of trouble: when he cometh up unto the people, he will invade them with his troops. {invade...: or, cut them in pieces}

{Whoso} findeth a wife findeth a good {thing}, and obtaineth favour of the LORD.

Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price {is} far above rubies.

And now, my daughter, fear not; I will do to thee all that thou requirest: for all the city of my people doth know that thou {art} a virtuous woman. {city: Heb. gate}

Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife: and they shall be one flesh.

{It is} better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house. {a brawling...: Heb. a woman of contentions} {a wide...: Heb. an house of society}

A sound heart {is} the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones.

Her husband is known in the gates, when he sitteth among the elders of the land.

According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that {pertain} unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue: {to: or, by}

Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things {are} honest, whatsoever things {are} just, whatsoever things {are} pure, whatsoever things {are} lovely, whatsoever things {are} of good report; if {there be} any virtue, and if {there be} any praise, think on these things. {honest: or, venerable}

For what {is} our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? {Are} not even ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming? {rejoicing: or, glorying?}

Therefore {will} I {be} unto Ephraim as a moth, and to the house of Judah as rottenness. {rottenness: or, a worm}

He that gathereth in summer {is} a wise son: {but} he that sleepeth in harvest {is} a son that causeth shame.