Proverbs. Chapter thirty- one words of King Lemuel, the prophecy with which
his mother taught him. What a son of mine and what a son of
my womb and what a son of my desires. Do not give women your
strength or your ways to what destroys kings. It is not of kings or
Lemuel, it is not of kings to drink wine, nor of princes cider,
lest they drink, forget the law, and pervert the right of all
who are afflicted. Give cider to the faint and wine to the bitter-
hearted, drink and forget their need and their misery. Don' t remember
any more. Open your mouth for the mute in the judgment of all the
helpless. Open your mouth, judge righteously, and defend the cause of the
poor and needy virtuous woman. Who will find it because its esteem far surpasses
that of precious stones. Her husband' s heart is in her trust and
will not lack profit. She gives him good and not bad every day of
his life. He seeks wool and linen and willfully works with his hands.
It' s like a merchant ship Bring your bread from afar, get up
still at night and give food to your family and ration to your maids.
Consider the inheritance and the buying and planting of the fruit of his hands.
He girds his loins with strength and strives for his arms. You see your
business is going well, your lamp doesn' t go out at night.
Apply your hand to the use and your hands to the wheel, extend your
hand to the poor and extend your hands to the needy. He has no
fear of snow for his family, because his whole family is dressed in double
clothes. She makes tapestries of linen, fine and purple. It' s
his dress. Her husband is known at the gates when he sits with the
elders of the earth, makes cloths and sells and gives ribbons to the merchant
strength and honor are his garment and coming opens his mouth with wisdom and the
law of mercy is in his tongue. Consider the ways of your house and
do not eat the bread for nothing. Her children get up and call her
blessed and her husband also washes her. Many women did good but you overcome
all deceitful is grace and go to beauty. The woman who fears Jehovah will
be praised, give her the fruit of her hands and wash her at the
gates. Their facts