Proverbs 30:23
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For an odious woman when she is married; and an handmaid that is heir to her mistress.an unloved woman who marries, and a maidservant who supplants her mistress.
In other translations
For an odious woman when she is married; and an handmaid that is heir to her mistress.an unloved woman who marries, and a maidservant who supplants her mistress.
Hebrew words
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Related verses
- Proverbs 21:19It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry woman.Better to live in the desert than with a contentious and ill-tempered wife.
- Proverbs 27:15A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike.A constant dripping on a rainy day and a contentious woman are alike—
- Proverbs 21:9It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house.Better to live on a corner of the roof than to share a house with a quarrelsome wife.
- Proverbs 29:21He that delicately bringeth up his servant from a child shall have him become his son at the length.A servant pampered from his youth will bring grief in the end.
- Proverbs 19:13A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.A foolish son is his father’s ruin, and a quarrelsome wife is like a constant dripping.
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