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Text -- Proverbs 31:15 (NET)

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31:15 She also gets up while it is still night, and provides food for her household and a portion to her female servants.
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Commentary -- Word/Phrase Notes (per phrase)

Wesley: Pro 31:15 - -- Distributes all necessary provisions.

Distributes all necessary provisions.

JFB: Pro 31:15 - -- She diligently attends to expending as well as gathering wealth;

She diligently attends to expending as well as gathering wealth;

Clarke: Pro 31:15 - -- She riseth also while it is yet night - 4. She is an economist of time; and when the nights are long, and the days short, her family not only spend ...

She riseth also while it is yet night -

4. She is an economist of time; and when the nights are long, and the days short, her family not only spend a part of the evening after sunset in domestic labor, but they all arise before daylight, and prepare the day’ s food, that they may not have their labor interrupted. To those who are going to the fields, and to the flocks, she gives the food necessary for the day: טרף teref , prey, a term taken from hunting, the object of which was, the supplying their natural wants: hence applied to daily food. See notes on Pro 30:8. And to the women who are to be employed within she gives חק chok , the task - the kind of work they are to do, the materials out of which they are to form it, and the quantity she expects from each. Thus all the servants are settled: their food, work, and tasks appointed. Every thing is done orderly.

TSK: Pro 31:15 - -- riseth : Jos 3:1; 2Ch 36:15; Psa 119:147, Psa 119:148; Ecc 9:10; Mar 1:35; Rom 12:11 and giveth : Mat 24:25; Luk 12:42

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Commentary -- Word/Phrase Notes (per Verse)

Barnes: Pro 31:15 - -- A portion to her maidens - The daily task assigned to each at the same time as the daily food. Compare Pro 30:8; Exo 5:14.

A portion to her maidens - The daily task assigned to each at the same time as the daily food. Compare Pro 30:8; Exo 5:14.

Poole: Pro 31:15 - -- While it is yet night early in the morning, to redeem thee. Giveth meat distributeth all her necessary provisions. A portion either, 1. Of work,...

While it is yet night early in the morning, to redeem thee.

Giveth meat distributeth all her necessary provisions.

A portion either,

1. Of work, which she allots to them. Or rather,

2. Of provisions for them; for so this word is used, Gen 47:22 Lev 10:13,14 Pr 30:8 , and no where, to my remembrance, of an allotment of work. And so this clause agrees best with the former, expressing the same thing in other words, according to the manner.

Haydock: Pro 31:15 - -- Night, or early in the morning, as soon as the night was over; de nocte. Hebrew, "while it is yet night." (Haydock) --- Extreme vigilance is req...

Night, or early in the morning, as soon as the night was over; de nocte. Hebrew, "while it is yet night." (Haydock) ---

Extreme vigilance is required of those who direct others. "The master must be first up, and last in bed." (Cato v.)

Gill: Pro 31:15 - -- She riseth also while it is yet night,.... That is, before the ascent of the morning, as Aben Ezra explains it, before break of day; a great while bef...

She riseth also while it is yet night,.... That is, before the ascent of the morning, as Aben Ezra explains it, before break of day; a great while before day, as Christ is said to rise to pray, Mar 1:35; while it was yet dark; so the church here: which shows her affection for her family, her care of her children, and fervent zeal for her husband's interest and good; a different frame of spirit this from that of hers in Son 5:2;

and giveth meat to her household, and a portion to her maidens; in allusion to a daily stated allowance q of food given to such; and spiritually may be meant, by her "household" or family, the same with the family of Christ, that is named of himself, which consists of various persons, fathers, young men, and children; and by her "maidens" the ministers of the word; see Pro 9:3; who are stewards in the family, and have the food for it put into their hands to dispense; it is by these the church gives meat to her household feeds them with knowledge and understanding, with the wholesome words of Christ, with the good doctrines of the Gospel; these have a certain portion given them, and they rightly cut and divide the word of truth, and give to everyone their portion of meat in due season, according to their age and circumstances; milk indeed to babes and meat to strong men; see Luk 12:42. The Targum renders the word for "portion by service": understanding not a portion of food, but of work, a task set them, and so the word is used in Exo 5:14. The Septuagint, Syriac, and Arabic versions, render it, "works", which may be very well applied to the work and service of the Gospel ministry, and the several parts of it.

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Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Pro 31:15 The word חֹק (khoq) probably means “allotted portion of food” as before, but some suggest it means the task that is allo...

Geneva Bible: Pro 31:15 She riseth also while it is yet night, and giveth food to her household, and a ( i ) portion to her maidens. ( i ) She prepares their food early.

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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 31:15 - -- With this diligence in her duties she is not a long sleeper, who is not awakened till the sun is up; but 15 ו She riseth up while it is yet night...

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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