THEOSISProverbs 31:3Meaning & Commentary from the Church Fathers
Give not thy substance to women, and thy riches to destroy kings.
אַל־תִּתֵּ֣ן לַנָּשִׁ֣ים חֵילֶ֑ךָ וּ֝דְרָכֶ֗יךָ לַֽמְח֥וֹת מְלָכִֽין׃
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Passages read together with this verse.
- Neh 13:26Did not Solomon king of Israel sin in this kind of thing: and surely among many nations, there was not a king like him, and he was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel: and yet women of other countries brought even him to sin.
- Deut 17:17He shall not have many wives, that may allure his mind, nor immense sums of silver and gold.
- Prov 7:26For she hath cast down many wounded, and the strongest have been slain by her.
- Prov 7:27Her house is the way to hell, reaching even to the inner chambers of death.
- Prov 5:9Give not thy honour to strangers, and thy years to the cruel.
- Prov 5:11And thou mourn at the last, when thou shalt have spent thy flesh and thy body, and say;
- Hos 4:11Fornication, and wine, and drunkenness, take away the understanding.