Proverbs 30:23 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²³ a contemptible woman when she gets a husband and a maid when she supplants 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

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Proverbs 21:9

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Proverbs 30:22

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