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

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

¹¹ The heart of her husband trusts in her. He shall have no lack of gain.

¹² She does him good, and not harm, All the days of her life.

¹³ She seeks wool and flax, And works eagerly with her hands.

¹⁴ She is like the merchant ships. She brings her bread from afar.

¹⁵ She rises also while it is yet night, Gives food to her household, And portions for her servant girls.

¹⁶ She considers a field, and buys it. With the fruit of her hands, she plants a vineyard.

¹⁷ She girds her loins with strength, And makes her arms strong.

¹⁸ She perceives that her merchandise is profitable. Her lamp doesn't go out by night.

¹⁹ She lays her hands to the distaff, And her hands hold the spindle.

²⁰ She opens her arms to the poor; Yes, she extends her hands to the needy.

²¹ She is not afraid of the snow for her household; For all her household are clothed with scarlet.

²² She makes for herself carpets of tapestry. Her clothing is fine linen and purple.

²³ Her husband is respected in the gates, When he sits among the elders of the land.

²⁴ She makes linen garments and sells them, And delivers sashes to the merchant.

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.

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.

³¹ Give her of the fruit of her hands! Let her works praise her in the gates!

¹⁹ It is better to dwell in a desert land, Than with a contentious and fretful woman.

⁹ It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, Than to share a house with a contentious woman.

³ Through wisdom a house is built; By understanding it is established;

⁴ By knowledge the rooms are filled With all rare and beautiful treasure.

¹³ A foolish son is the calamity of his father. A wife's quarrels are a continual dripping.

¹³ The foolish woman is loud, Undisciplined, and knows nothing.

¹⁴ She sits at the door of her house, On a seat in the high places of the city,

¹⁵ To call to those who pass by, Who go straight on their ways,

¹¹ All the people who were in the gate, and the elders, said, We are witnesses. Yahweh make the woman who has come into your house like Rachel and like Leah, which two built the house of Israel: and do you worthily in Ephrathah, and be famous in Bethlehem:

¹ Now when Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the seed royal.

²⁴ Him who dies of Ahab in the city the dogs shall eat; and him who dies in the field shall the birds of the sky eat.

²⁵ (But there was none like Ahab, who did sell himself to do that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, whom Jezebel his wife stirred up.

³¹ It happened, as if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, that he took as wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and went and served Baal, and worshiped him.