Proverbs 31:18 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁸ She perceives that her merchandise is profitable. Her lamp does not go out at night.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁸ She perceiveth that her merchandise is good: Her candle goeth not out by night.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁸ She tastes and sees that her gain from work [with and for God] is good; her lamp goes not out, but it burns on continually through the night [of trouble, privation, or sorrow, warning away fear, doubt, and distrust].

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁸ She perceiveth that her merchandise is profitable; Her lamp goeth not out by night.

Common English Bible

¹⁸ She realizes that her trading is successful; she doesn’t put out her lamp at night.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁸ She has tasted and seen that her tasks are good; her lamp shall not be extinguished at night.

Proverbs 31:18 Cross References

1 Thessalonians 2:9

You remember our labor and toil, brothers and sisters; we worked night and day so that we might not burden any of you while we proclaimed to you the gospel of God.

Psalm 127:2

It is in vain that you rise up early and go late to rest, eating the bread of anxious toil, for he gives sleep to his beloved.

Genesis 31:40

It was like this with me: by day the heat consumed me and the cold by night, and my sleep fled from my eyes.

Job 14:21

Their children come to honor, and they do not know it; they are brought low, and it goes unnoticed.

Proverbs 31:17

She girds herself with strength and makes her arms strong.

Proverbs 31:19

She puts her hands to the distaff, and her hands hold the spindle.