A virtuous woman [is] a crown to her husband, And as rottenness in his bones [is] one causing shame.
A ring of gold in the nose of a sow — A fair woman and stubborn of behaviour.
The thoughts of the righteous [are] justice, The counsels of the wicked — deceit.
Every wise woman hath builded her house, And the foolish with her hands breaketh it down.
A healed heart [is] life to the flesh, And rottenness to the bones [is] envy.
[Whoso] hath found a wife hath found good, And bringeth out good-will from Jehovah.
Better to dwell in a wilderness land, Than [with] a woman of contentions and anger.
Better to sit on a corner of the roof, Than [with] a woman of contentions and a house of company.
For a hated one when she ruleth, And a maid-servant when she succeedeth her mistress.
‘Many [are] the daughters who have done worthily, Thou hast gone up above them all.’
I have heard, and my belly trembleth, At the noise have my lips quivered, Rottenness doth come into my bones, And in my place I do tremble, That I rest for a day of distress, At the coming up of the people, he overcometh it.
but neither [is] a man apart from a woman, nor a woman apart from a man, in the Lord,
for a man, indeed, ought not to cover the head, being the image and glory of God, and a woman is the glory of a man,
And now, my daughter, fear not, all that thou sayest I do to thee, for all the gate of my people doth know that thou [art] a virtuous woman.