Proverbs 12:4

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

A diligent woman is a crown to her husband: and she that doth things worthy of confusion, is a rottenness in his bones.

Cross References

Proverbs 14:30

Soundness of heart is the life of the flesh: but envy is the rottenness of the bones.

Proverbs 14:1

A wise woman buildeth her house: but the foolish will pull down with her hands that also which is built.

1 Corinthians 11:11

But yet neither is the man without the woman, nor the woman without the man, in the Lord.

1 Corinthians 11:7

The man indeed ought not to cover his head, because he is the image and glory of God; but the woman is the glory of the man.

Proverbs 21:19

It is better to dwell in a wilderness, than with a quarrelsome and passionate woman.

Proverbs 21:9

It is better to sit in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling women, and in a common house.

Habakkuk 3:16

I have heard and my bowels were troubled: my lips trembled at the voice. Let rottenness enter into my bones, and swarm under me. That I may rest in the day of tribulation: that I may go up to our people that are girded.

Ruth 3:11

Fear not therefore, but whatsoever thou shalt say to me I will do to thee. For all the people that dwell within the gates of my city know that thou art a virtuous woman.

Proverbs 12:5

The thoughts of the just are judgments: and the counsels of the wicked are deceitful.

Proverbs 18:22

He that hath found a good wife, hath found a good thing, and shall receive a pleasure from the Lord. He that driveth away a good wife, driveth away a good thing: but he that keepeth an adulteress, is foolish and wicked.

Proverbs 11:22

A golden ring in a swine's snout, a woman fair and foolish.

Proverbs 30:23

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

Proverbs 31:29

Many daughters have gathered together riches: thou hast surpassed them all.