Proverbs 30:23 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

²³ For an odious woman when she is married; And an 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.

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

Proverbs 19:13

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

Proverbs 21:19

It is better to dwell in a desert land, Than with a contentious and fretful woman.

Proverbs 21:9

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

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 a son at the last.

Proverbs 30:22

For a servant when he is king; 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: