Proverbs 30:23 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

²³ an unloved woman when she gets a husband, and a maid when she succeeds her mistress.

More versions

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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²³ By an odious woman when she is married: and by a bondwoman when she is heir to her mistress.

Proverbs 30:23 Cross References

Proverbs 12:4

A good wife is the crown of her husband, but she who brings shame is like rottenness in his bones.

Proverbs 19:13

A foolish son is ruin to his father, and a wife's quarreling is a continual dripping of rain.

Proverbs 21:19

It is better to live in a desert land than with a contentious and fretful woman.

Proverbs 21:9

It is better to live in a corner of the housetop than in a house shared with a contentious woman.

Proverbs 27:15

A continual dripping on a rainy day and a contentious woman are alike;

Proverbs 29:21

He who pampers his servant from childhood, will in the end find him his heir.

Proverbs 30:22

a slave when he becomes king, and a fool when he is filled with food;

Proverbs 30:24

Four things on earth are small, but they are exceedingly wise: