Proverbs 30:23 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

²³ for an odious woman when she is married; and a handmaid that is heir to her mistress.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²³ For an odious woman when she is married; And an handmaid that is heir to her mistress.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²³ An unloved and repugnant woman when she is married, and a maidservant when she supplants her mistress.

American Standard Version (1901)

²³ For an odious woman when she is married; And a handmaid that is heir to her mistress.

Common English Bible

²³ at a detested woman when she gets married and a female servant when she replaces her mistress.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²³ by a hateful woman when she has been taken in matrimony, and by a handmaid when she has been heir to her mistress.

Proverbs 30:23 Cross References

Proverbs 27:15

A continual dropping in a very rainy day and a contentious woman are alike.

Proverbs 29:21

He that delicately bringeth up his servant from a child shall have him become his son at the length.

Proverbs 21:19

It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry woman.

Proverbs 21:9

It is better to dwell in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman in a wide house.

Proverbs 19:13

A foolish son is the calamity of his father: and the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.

Proverbs 30:22

for a servant when he reigneth; and a fool when he is filled with meat;

Proverbs 30:24

There be four things which are little upon the earth, but they are exceeding wise:

Proverbs 12:4

A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband: but she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.