Proverbs 31:16 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

¹⁶ She considereth a field, and buyeth it: With the fruit of her hands she planteth a vineyard.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁶ She considereth a field, and buyeth it: With the fruit of her hands she planteth a vineyard.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁶ She considers a [new] field before she buys or accepts it [expanding prudently and not courting neglect of her present duties by assuming other duties]; with her savings [of time and strength] she plants fruitful vines in her vineyard. [S. of Sol. 8:12.]

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁶ She considereth a field, and buyeth it; With the fruit of her hands she planteth a vineyard.

Common English Bible

¹⁶ She surveys a field and acquires it; from her own resources, she plants a vineyard.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁶ She has considered a field and bought it. From the fruit of her own hands, she has planted a vineyard.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁶ She hath considered a field, and bought it: with the fruit of her hands she hath planted a vineyard.

Proverbs 31:16 Cross References

Proverbs 14:1

Every wise woman buildeth her house: But the foolish plucketh it down with her own hands.

Proverbs 31:15

She riseth also while it is yet night, And giveth meat to her household, And their task to her maidens.

Proverbs 31:17

She girdeth her loins with strength, And maketh strong her arms.

Song of Solomon 8:12

My vineyard, which is mine, is before me: Thou, O Solomon, shalt have the thousand, And those that keep the fruit thereof two hundred.

Matthew 13:44

The kingdom of heaven is like unto a treasure hidden in the field; which a man found, and hid; and in his joy he goeth and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field.

Joshua 15:18

And it came to pass, when she came unto him, that she moved him to ask of her father a field: and she lighted down from off her ass; and Caleb said unto her, What wouldest thou?