◄ Proverbs 30:23 ►
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Good News Translation
a hateful woman who gets married, and a servant woman who takes the place of her mistress.

New Revised Standard Version
an unloved woman when she gets a husband, and a maid when she succeeds her mistress.

Contemporary English Version
a hateful woman who finds a husband, and a slave who takes the place of the woman who owns her.

New American Bible
Under an unloved woman who is wed, and a maidservant who displaces her mistress.

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

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

an odious

Proverbs 19:13 A foolish son is the grief of his father: and a wrangling wife is like a roof continually dropping through.

Proverbs 21:9,19 It is better to sit in a corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman, and in a common house. . . .

Proverbs 27:15 Roofs dropping through in a cold day, and a contentious woman are alike.

an handmaid

Proverbs 29:21 He that nourisheth his servant delicately from his childhood, afterwards shall find him stubborn.

Context
The Words of Agur
…22By a slave when he reigneth: by a fool when be is filled with meat: 23By an odious woman when she is married: and by a bondwoman when she is heir to her mistress.24There are four very little things of the earth, and they are wiser than the wise.…
Cross References
Proverbs 30:22
By a slave when he reigneth: by a fool when be is filled with meat:

Proverbs 30:24
There are four very little things of the earth, and they are wiser than the wise.

Proverbs 30:22
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