THEOSISProverbs 12:4Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
A diligent woman is a crown to her husband: and she that doth things worthy of confusion, is as rottenness in his bones.
אֵֽשֶׁת־חַ֭יִל עֲטֶ֣רֶת בַּעְלָ֑הּ וּכְרָקָ֖ב בְּעַצְמוֹתָ֣יו מְבִישָֽׁה׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Prov 14:30Soundness of heart is the life of the flesh: but envy is the rottenness of the bones.
- Prov 14:1A wise woman buildeth her house: but the foolish will pull down with her hands that also which is built.
- Prov 31:10Who shall find a valiant woman? far, and from the uttermost coasts is the price of her.
- Prov 31:25Strength and beauty are her clothing, and she shall laugh in the latter day.
- 1 Cor 11:11But yet neither is the man without the woman, nor the woman without the man, in the Lord.
- 1 Cor 11:7The man indeed ought not to cover his head: because he is the image and glory of God. But the woman is the glory of the man.
- Prov 21:9It is better to sit in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman, and in a common house.
- Prov 21:19It is better to dwell in a wilderness, than with a quarrelsome and passionate woman.