New King James Version (Tinasha LaRaye)

New King James Version (Simon Bubb)

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            <div class="label">31</div><div class="s"><span class="heading">The Words of King Lemuel&#8217;s Mother</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="PRO.31.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The words of King Lemuel, the utterance which his mother taught him:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.31.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">What, my son?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.31.2"><span class="content">And what, son of my womb?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="PRO.31.2"><span class="content">And what, </span><span class="note x"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body">Is. 49:15</span></span><span class="content">son of my vows?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.31.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="note x"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body">Prov. 5:9</span></span><span class="content">Do not give your strength to women,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="PRO.31.3"><span class="content">Nor your ways </span><span class="note x"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body">Deut. 17:17; 1 Kin. 11:1; Neh. 13:26; Prov. 7:26; Hos. 4:11</span></span><span class="content">to that which destroys kings.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.31.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="note x"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body">Eccl. 10:17</span></span><span class="it"><span class="content">It</span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="it"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> not for kings, O Lemuel,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.31.4"><span class="it"><span class="content">It</span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="it"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> not for kings to drink wine,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="PRO.31.4"><span class="content">Nor for princes intoxicating drink;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.31.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="note x"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body">Hos. 4:11</span></span><span class="content">Lest they drink and forget the law,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="PRO.31.5"><span class="content">And pervert the justice of all the afflicted.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.31.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="note x"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body">Ps. 104:15</span></span><span class="content">Give strong drink to him who is perishing,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="PRO.31.6"><span class="content">And wine to those who are bitter of heart.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.31.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">Let him drink and forget his poverty,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="PRO.31.7"><span class="content">And remember his misery no more.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.31.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="note x"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body">Job 29:15, 16; Ps. 82</span></span><span class="content">Open your mouth for the speechless,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="PRO.31.8"><span class="content">In the cause of all </span><span class="it"><span class="content">who</span></span><span class="content">  </span><span class="it"><span class="content">are</span></span><span class="content"> appointed to die.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.31.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">Open your mouth, </span><span class="note x"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body">Lev. 19:15; Deut. 1:16</span></span><span class="content">judge righteously,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="PRO.31.9"><span class="content">And </span><span class="note x"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body">Job 29:12; Is. 1:17; Jer. 22:16</span></span><span class="content">plead the cause of the poor and needy.</span></span></div><div class="s"><span class="heading">The Virtuous Wife</span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.31.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="note x"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body">Ruth 3:11; Prov. 12:4; 19:14</span></span><span class="content">Who can find a virtuous wife?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="PRO.31.10"><span class="content">For her worth </span><span class="it"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> far above rubies.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.31.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">The heart of her husband safely trusts her;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="PRO.31.11"><span class="content">So he will have no lack of gain.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.31.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">She does him good and not evil</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="PRO.31.12"><span class="content">All the days of her life.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.31.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">She seeks wool and flax,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="PRO.31.13"><span class="content">And willingly works with her hands.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.31.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">She is like the merchant ships,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="PRO.31.14"><span class="content">She brings her food from afar.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.31.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="note x"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body">Prov. 20:13; Rom. 12:11</span></span><span class="content">She also rises while it is yet night,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.31.15"><span class="content">And </span><span class="note x"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body">Luke 12:42</span></span><span class="content">provides food for her household,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="PRO.31.15"><span class="content">And a portion for her maidservants.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.31.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">She considers a field and buys it;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="PRO.31.16"><span class="content">From her profits she plants a vineyard.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.31.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">She girds herself with strength,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="PRO.31.17"><span class="content">And strengthens her arms.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.31.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">She perceives that her merchandise </span><span class="it"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> good,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="PRO.31.18"><span class="content">And her lamp does not go out by night.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.31.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">She stretches out her hands to the distaff,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="PRO.31.19"><span class="content">And her hand holds the spindle.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.31.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="note x"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body">Deut. 15:11; Job 31:16&#8211;20; Prov. 22:9; Rom. 12:13; Eph. 4:28; Heb. 13:16</span></span><span class="content">She extends her hand to the poor,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="PRO.31.20"><span class="content">Yes, she reaches out her hands to the needy.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.31.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">She is not afraid of snow for her household,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="PRO.31.21"><span class="content">For all her household </span><span class="it"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> clothed with scarlet.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.31.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">She makes tapestry for herself;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="PRO.31.22"><span class="content">Her clothing </span><span class="it"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> fine linen and purple.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.31.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="note x"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body">Prov. 12:4</span></span><span class="content">Her husband is known in the gates,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="PRO.31.23"><span class="content">When he sits among the elders of the land.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.31.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">She makes linen garments and sells </span><span class="it"><span class="content">them,</span></span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="PRO.31.24"><span class="content">And supplies sashes for the merchants.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.31.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Strength and honor </span><span class="it"><span class="content">are</span></span><span class="content"> her clothing;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="PRO.31.25"><span class="content">She shall rejoice in time to come.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.31.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">She opens her mouth with wisdom,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="PRO.31.26"><span class="content">And on her tongue </span><span class="it"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> the law of kindness.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.31.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">She watches over the ways of her household,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="PRO.31.27"><span class="content">And does not eat the bread of idleness.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PRO.31.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">Her children rise up and call her blessed;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="PRO.31.28"><span class="content">Her husband </span><span class="it"><span class="content">also,</span></span><span class="content"> and he praises her:</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PRO.31.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">&#8220;Many daughters have done well,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="PRO.31.29"><span class="content">But you excel them all.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="PRO.31.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">Charm </span><span class="it"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> deceitful and beauty </span><span class="it"><span class="content">is</span></span><span class="content"> passing,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="PRO.31.30"><span class="content">But a woman </span><span class="it"><span class="content">who</span></span><span class="content"> fears the </span><span class="sc"><span class="content">Lord</span></span><span class="content">, she shall be praised.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="PRO.31.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">Give her of the fruit of her hands,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="PRO.31.31"><span class="content">And let her own works praise her in the gates.</span></span></div>
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The words of King Lemuel, the utterance which his mother taught him:
What, my son?
And what, son of my womb?
And what, son of my vows?
Do not give your strength to women,
Nor your ways to that which destroys kings.
It is not for kings, O Lemuel,
It is not for kings to drink wine,
Nor for princes intoxicating drink;
Lest they drink and forget the law,
And pervert the justice of all the afflicted.
Give strong drink to him who is perishing,
And wine to those who are bitter of heart.
Let him drink and forget his poverty,
And remember his misery no more.
Open your mouth for the speechless,
In the cause of all who are appointed to die.
Open your mouth, judge righteously,
And plead the cause of the poor and needy.

Who can find a virtuous wife?
For her worth is far above rubies.
The heart of her husband safely trusts her;
So he will have no lack of gain.
She does him good and not evil
All the days of her life.
She seeks wool and flax,
And willingly works with her hands.
She is like the merchant ships,
She brings her food from afar.
She also rises while it is yet night,
And provides food for her household,
And a portion for her maidservants.
She considers a field and buys it;
From her profits she plants a vineyard.
She girds herself with strength,
And strengthens her arms.
She perceives that her merchandise is good,
And her lamp does not go out by night.
She stretches out her hands to the distaff,
And her hand holds the spindle.
She extends her hand to the poor,
Yes, she reaches out her hands to the needy.
She is not afraid of snow for her household,
For all her household is clothed with scarlet.
She makes tapestry for herself;
Her clothing is fine linen and purple.
Her husband is known in the gates,
When he sits among the elders of the land.
She makes linen garments and sells them,
And supplies sashes for the merchants.
Strength and honor are her clothing;
She shall rejoice in time to come.
She opens her mouth with wisdom,
And on her tongue is the law of kindness.
She watches over the ways of her household,
And does not eat the bread of idleness.
Her children rise up and call her blessed;
Her husband also, and he praises her:
“Many daughters have done well,
But you excel them all.”
Charm is deceitful and beauty is passing,
But a woman who fears the LORD, she shall be praised.
Give her of the fruit of her hands,
And let her own works praise her in the gates.

Poslouchat Proverbs 31