A mulher virtuosa
A mulher virtuosa de Provérbios 31 é um retrato de excelência. Seu valor excede o de rubis — ela é sábia, trabalhadora, generosa e teme ao Senhor acima de tudo.
Uma joia rara
Mulher virtuosa, quem a achará? Seu valor excede o de rubis. Ela é o coração da família e a força do lar.
Who can find a valiant woman? for her price is far above precious stones.
Beth
Who can find a valiant woman? for her price is far above precious stones.
Beth
The heart of her husband safely trusts in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil.
Gimel
She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life.
Daleth
She sought wool and flax and worked willingly with her hands.
He
She was like the merchants’ ships; she brings her food from afar.
Vau
She rose up even at night and gave food to her family and a portion to her maidens.
Zain
She considered the inheritance and bought it; with the fruit of her hands she planted a vineyard.
Cheth
She girded her loins with strength and strengthened her arms.
Teth
She perceived that her merchandise was good; her fire did not go out by night.
Jod
She laid her hands to the spindle, and her hands held the distaff.
Caph
She stretched out her hand to the poor; yea, she reached forth her hands to the destitute.
Lamed
The virtuous woman is a crown to her husband, but she that makes ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.
And now, my daughter, fear not; I will do unto thee all that thou hast said, for all the city of my people know that thou art a valiant woman.
Caráter acima da aparência
Enganosa é a graça e vã é a formosura, mas a mulher que teme ao Senhor será louvada. A verdadeira beleza é interior.
Grace is deceitful, and beauty is vain, but the woman that fears the Lord shall be praised.
Tau
In like manner also that the women adorn themselves in an honest manner, with shyness and modesty, not with ostentatious hair or gold or pearls or costly clothing
but with good works (as becomes women professing godliness).
Every wise woman builds her house, but the foolish plucks it down with her hands.
House and riches are the inheritance from fathers, but the prudent wife is from the Lord.
The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becomes holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of honesty;
that they may teach the young women to be prudent, to love their husbands, to love their children,
to be temperate, chaste, good housekeepers, subject to their own husbands, that the word of God not be blasphemed.