Proverbs Chapter 31 verse 29 Holy Bible
Many daughters have done worthily, But thou excellest them all.
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Unnumbered women have done well, but you are better than all of them.
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Many daughters have done worthily, but thou excellest them all.
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Many daughters have done virtuously, but thou excellest them all.
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"Many women do noble things, But you excel them all."
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`Many `are' the daughters who have done worthily, Thou hast gone up above them all.'
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Proverbs 31 : 29 Bible Verse Songs
Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 29. - RESH. Many daughters have done virtuously, but thou excellest them all. The versions and some commentators take the encomium in the mean and restricted sense of praise for the acquisition of riches. Thus the Vulgate, Multae filiae congregaverunt divitias; Septuagint, "Many daughters have obtained wealth." But it adds another rendering, "Many have wrought power (ἐποίησανδύναμιν)," which is nearer the meaning in this place. Chayil (as we have seen, ver. 10) means "force," virtus, "strength of character" shown in various ways (comp. Numbers 24:18; Psalm 60:12). "Daughters," equivalent to "women," as Genesis 30:13; Song of Solomon 6:9. Roman Catholic commentators have, with much ingenuity, applied the whole description of the virtuous woman, and especially the present verse, to the Virgin Mary. We may regard it as a representation of the truly Christian matron, who loves husband and children, guides the house, is discreet, chaste, good, a teacher of good things (1 Timothy 5:14; Titus 2:3, etc.).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(29) Many daughters--i.e., women (Genesis 30:13; Song of Solomon 6:9); a term of affection.
