¹⁴ House and riches are an inheritance from fathers, But a prudent wife is from Yahweh.

²⁵ Strength and dignity are her clothing. She laughs at the time to come.

²⁶ She opens her mouth with wisdom. Faithful instruction is on her tongue.

²⁷ She looks well to the ways of her household, And doesn't eat the bread of idleness.

¹ "Then the Kingdom of Heaven will be like ten virgins, who took their lamps, and went out to meet the bridegroom.

² Five of them were foolish, and five were wise.

³ Those who were foolish, when they took their lamps, took no oil with them,

⁴ but the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps.

⁵ Now while the bridegroom delayed, they all slumbered and slept.

⁶ But at midnight there was a cry, 'Behold! The bridegroom is coming! Come out to meet him!'

⁷ Then all those virgins arose, and trimmed their lamps.

⁸ The foolish said to the wise, 'Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out.'

⁹ But the wise answered, saying, 'What if there isn't enough for us and you? You go rather to those who sell, and buy for yourselves.'

¹⁰ While they went away to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who were ready went in with him to the marriage feast, and the door was shut.

¹¹ Afterward the other virgins also came, saying, 'Lord, Lord, open to us.'

¹² But he answered, 'Most assuredly I tell you, I don't know you.'

¹³ Watch therefore, for you don't know the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man is coming.

¹⁴ "For it is like a man, going into another country, who called his own servants, and entrusted his goods to them.

¹⁶ A gracious woman obtains honor, But violent men obtain riches.

³⁰ Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain; But a woman who fears Yahweh, she shall be praised.

¹¹ Their wives in the same way must be reverent, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things.

¹⁰ Who can find a worthy woman? For her price is far above rubies.

³³ The fear of Yahweh teaches wisdom. Before honor is humility.

⁵ But if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all liberally and without reproach; and it will be given to him.

¹⁰ The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of wisdom. The knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.

¹¹ Seek you Yahweh and his strength; Seek his face forever more.

³ and that older women likewise be reverent in behavior, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good;

⁴ that they may train the young women to love their husbands, to love their children,

⁵ to be sober-minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that God's word may not be blasphemed.

⁶ Likewise, exhort the younger men to be sober-minded;

⁴ A worthy woman is the crown of her husband, But a disgraceful wife is as rottenness in his bones.

¹ Every wise woman builds her house, But the foolish one tears it down with her own hands.

²⁸ Her children rise up and call her blessed. Her husband also praises her:

²⁹ "Many women do noble things, But you excel them all."

³⁰ Charm is deceitful, and beauty is vain; But a woman who fears Yahweh, she shall be praised.