Proverbs 31:18

A Conservative Version

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

Cross References

1 Thessalonians 2:9

For ye remember, brothers, our labor and the hardship. For, laboring night and day in order not to burden any of you, we preached to you the good-news of God.

Psalm 127:2

It is vain for you to rise up early, to take rest late, to eat the bread of toil, [for] so he gives sleep to his beloved.

Genesis 31:40

Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night, and my sleep fled from my eyes.

Job 14:21

His sons come to honor, and he does not know it, and they are brought low, but he does not perceive it of them.

Proverbs 31:17

She girds her loins with strength, and makes strong her arms.

Proverbs 31:19

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