Proverbs Chapter 31 verse 14 Holy Bible
She is like the merchant-ships; She bringeth her bread from afar.
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She is like the trading-ships, getting food from far away.
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She is like the merchants' ships: she bringeth her food from afar;
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She is like the merchants' ships; she bringeth her food from afar.
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She is like the merchant ships. She brings her bread from afar.
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She hath been as ships of the merchant, From afar she bringeth in her bread.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 14. - HE. She is like the merchants' ships. She is like them in that she extends her operations beyond her own immediate neighbourhood, and bringeth her food from afar, buying in the best markets and on advantageous terms, without regard to distance, and being always on the look out to make honest profit. Septuagint, "She is like a ship trading from a distance, and she herself gathereth her livelihood." The expressions in the text point to active commercial operations by sea as well as land, such as we know to have been undertaken by Solomon, Jehoshaphat, and others (1 Kings 9:26; 1 Kings 22:48), and such as the Hebrews must have noticed in the Phoenician cities, Sidon and Tyre.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(14) She bringeth her food from afar.--Looks for opportunities of buying cheaply at a distance from home, instead of paying a larger price on the spot.