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Text -- Proverbs 31:25 (NET)

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31:25 She is clothed with strength and honor, and she can laugh at the time to come.
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Commentary -- Word/Phrase Notes (per phrase)

Wesley: Pro 31:25 - -- Strength of mind, magnanimity, courage, activity.

Strength of mind, magnanimity, courage, activity.

Wesley: Pro 31:25 - -- Her ornament and glory.

Her ornament and glory.

Wesley: Pro 31:25 - -- She lives in constant tranquillity of mind, from a just confidence in God's gracious providence.

She lives in constant tranquillity of mind, from a just confidence in God's gracious providence.

JFB: Pro 31:25 - -- Strong and beautiful is her clothing; or, figuratively, for moral character, vigorous and honorable.

Strong and beautiful is her clothing; or, figuratively, for moral character, vigorous and honorable.

JFB: Pro 31:25 - -- In confidence of certain maintenance.

In confidence of certain maintenance.

TSK: Pro 31:25 - -- Strength : Job 29:14, Job 40:10; Psa 132:9, Psa 132:16; Isa 61:10; Rom 13:14; Eph 4:24; 1Ti 2:10; 1Pe 5:5, 1Pe 5:6 and she : Psa 97:11, Psa 97:12; Isa...

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Commentary -- Word/Phrase Notes (per Verse)

Barnes: Pro 31:25 - -- Shall rejoice in time to come - Better, rejoiceth over the time to come; i. e., looks forward to the future, not with anxious care, but with co...

Shall rejoice in time to come - Better, rejoiceth over the time to come; i. e., looks forward to the future, not with anxious care, but with confident gladness.

Poole: Pro 31:25 - -- Strength not strength of body, which is no ornament of that sex, save only as she preserves her health and strength by sobriety and exercise, which o...

Strength not strength of body, which is no ornament of that sex, save only as she preserves her health and strength by sobriety and exercise, which other men waste by intemperance and idleness; but strength of mind, magnanimity, courage, resolution, activity.

Honour either,

1. Her prudent, and pious, and amiable behaviour, in which true honour principally consists. Or,

2. That good name and honourable esteem which she hath gained amongst all that know her by her virtuous disposition and carnage.

Her clothing these, and not her rich garments mentioned before, are her great ornament and glory.

She shall rejoice in thee to come: the sense is either,

1. In her old age she reaps the comfort and benefit of her youthful labours, Or rather,

2. She lives in constant tranquillity of mind, and a confident and cheerful expectation of all future events, how calamitous soever, partly because she hath laid in provisions for a rainy day, and chiefly because she hath the comfortable remembrance of a well-spent life, and, which follows thereupon, a just confidence in God’ s gracious providence and promises made to such persons.

Haydock: Pro 31:25 - -- Clothing: it is very beautiful, or wisdom and virtue surround her. --- Day. She fears not death, (Calmet) or future distress of hunger, &c. (Jans...

Clothing: it is very beautiful, or wisdom and virtue surround her. ---

Day. She fears not death, (Calmet) or future distress of hunger, &c. (Jansenius)

Gill: Pro 31:25 - -- Strength and honour are her clothing,.... Strength, not of body, but of mind. The church is clothed with strength, as her Lord, head, and husband, is...

Strength and honour are her clothing,.... Strength, not of body, but of mind. The church is clothed with strength, as her Lord, head, and husband, is said to be, Psa 93:1; and which she has from him; for though she is the weaker vessel, and weak in herself, yet is strong in him; and is able to bear and do all things, with a fortitude of mind to withstand every enemy, and persevere in well doing: and she is clothed with "honour"; with honourable garments, suitable to her rank and dignity; in cloth of gold, in raiment of needlework; with the garments of salvation, and the robe of righteousness;

and she shall rejoice in time to come; Aben Ezra interprets it of old age, or of the world to come; and Jarchi and Gersom of the day of death: having fulness of food and clothing, she is not afraid of want in old age, or in any time of distress that may come; and having a good name, laughs at death, and departs in peace; so these interpreters. The church of Christ fears no want at any time, nor need any of her members; they have a clothing that never waxes old, a righteousness that will answer for them in a time to come; their bread is given, and their waters are sure; they shall want no good thing; all their need is supplied from Christ; they have hope in their death, and rejoice then and sing, "O death, where is thy sting?" 1Co 15:55; they will have confidence in the day of judgment, and not be ashamed; shall come to Zion with everlasting joy; and shall rejoice with Christ, angels and saints, to all eternity.

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Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Pro 31:25 Heb “day.” This word is a metonymy of subject meaning any events that take place on the day or in the time to come.

Geneva Bible: Pro 31:25 ( m ) Strength and honour [are] her clothing; and she shall rejoice in time to come. ( m ) After he had spoken of the apparel of the body, he now dec...

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Commentary -- Verse Range Notes

TSK Synopsis: Pro 31:1-31 - --1 Lemuel's lesson of chastity and temperance.6 The afflicted are to be comforted and defended.10 The praise and properties of a good wife.

Maclaren: Pro 31:10-31 - --Portrait Of A Matron Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies. 11. The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, so that...

MHCC: Pro 31:10-31 - --This is the description of a virtuous woman of those days, but the general outlines equally suit every age and nation. She is very careful to recommen...

Matthew Henry: Pro 31:10-31 - -- This description of the virtuous woman is designed to show what wives the women should make and what wives the men should choose; it consists of t...

Keil-Delitzsch: Pro 31:25 - -- The description is now more inward: 25 ע Strength and honour is her clothing; Thus she laugheth at the future day. She is clothed with עז , ...

Constable: Pro 30:1--31:31 - --V. TWO DISCOURSES BY OTHER WISE MEN chs. 30--31 Chapters 30 and 31 form a distinct section in Proverbs because n...

Constable: Pro 31:1-31 - --B. The Wisdom of Lemuel ch. 31 Some commentators have regarded only the first nine verses of this chapte...

Constable: Pro 31:10-31 - --3. The wise woman 31:10-31 We have read much in Proverbs already about unwise women. Solomon personified both wisdom and folly as women (chs. 8-9). Pe...

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Introduction / Outline

JFB: Proverbs (Book Introduction) THE NATURE AND USE OF PROVERBS.--A proverb is a pithy sentence, concisely expressing some well-established truth susceptible of various illustrations ...

TSK: Proverbs (Book Introduction) The wisdom of all ages, from the highest antiquity, has chosen to compress and communicate its lessons in short, compendious sentences, and in poetic ...

TSK: Proverbs 31 (Chapter Introduction) Overview Pro 31:1, Lemuel’s lesson of chastity and temperance; Pro 31:6, The afflicted are to be comforted and defended; Pro 31:10, The praise a...

Poole: Proverbs 31 (Chapter Introduction) CHAPTER 31 Lemuel’ s lesson concerning chastity and temperance, Pro 31:1-5 . The proper use of wine, Pro 31:6,7 . An exhortation to righteous ...

MHCC: Proverbs (Book Introduction) The subject of this book may be thus stated by an enlargement on the opening verses. 1. The Proverbs of Solomon, the son of David, king of Israel. 2. ...

MHCC: Proverbs 31 (Chapter Introduction) (Pro 31:1-9) An exhortation to king Lemuel to take heed of sin, and to do duties. (v. 10-31) The description of a virtuous woman.

Matthew Henry: Proverbs (Book Introduction) An Exposition, With Practical Observations, of The Proverbs We have now before us, I. A new author, or penman rather, or pen (if you will) made use o...

Matthew Henry: Proverbs 31 (Chapter Introduction) This chapter is added to Solomon's proverbs, some think because it is of the same author, supposing king Lemuel to be king Solomon; others only bec...

Constable: Proverbs (Book Introduction) Introduction Title The title of this book in the Hebrew Bible is "The Proverbs of Solo...

Constable: Proverbs (Outline) Outline I. Discourses on wisdom chs. 1-9 A. Introduction to the book 1:1-7 ...

Constable: Proverbs Proverbs Bibliography Aitken, Kenneth T. Proverbs. Philadelphia: Westminster Press, 1986. Alden...

Haydock: Proverbs (Book Introduction) THE BOOK OF PROVERBS. INTRODUCTION. This book is so called, because it consists of wise and weighty sentences, regulating the morals of men; and...

Gill: Proverbs (Book Introduction) INTRODUCTION TO PROVERBS This book is called, in some printed Hebrew copies, "Sepher Mishle", the Book of Proverbs; the title of it in the Vulgate ...

Gill: Proverbs 31 (Chapter Introduction) INTRODUCTION TO PROVERBS 31 This chapter contains the last part of the book of Proverbs; which some reckon the fifth, others the sixth. It contains...

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