A wise woman builds her home, but a foolish woman tears it down with her own hands.

智慧妇人建立家室；愚妄妇人亲手拆毁。

妇人的智慧建立家室；愚昧却亲手拆毁它。

妇人的智慧建立家室；愚昧却亲手拆毁它。

智慧的女子建立家园，愚昧的女子亲手拆毁。

智慧妇人建立家室，愚妄妇人亲手拆毁。

智慧的女人建立自己的家；愚妄的女人亲手拆毁它。

智慧婦人建立家室；愚妄婦人親手拆毀。

婦人的智慧建立家室；愚昧卻親手拆毀它。

婦人的智慧建立家室；愚昧卻親手拆毀它。

智慧的女子建立家園，愚昧的女子親手拆毀。

智慧婦人建立家室，愚妄婦人親手拆毀。

智慧建立其家室；愚妄親手拆毁它。

智慧的女人建立自己的家；愚妄的女人親手拆毀它。

哲婦立家、愚婦手毀之、

惟此室家、哲婦建之、愚婦毀之。

智婦建立家室、愚婦親手毀之、

The wise woman builds her house, but with her own hands the foolish one tears hers down.

A wise woman builds her house. But a foolish woman tears hers down with her own hands.

The wisest of women builds her house, but folly with her own hands tears it down.

Every wise woman builds her house, but a foolish one tears it down with her own hands.

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

The wise woman builds her house, But the foolish pulls it down with her hands.

Every wise woman buildeth her house; But the foolish plucketh it down with her own hands.

Every wise woman builds her house, but a foolish one tears it down with her own hands.

Every wise woman buildeth her house: but the foolish plucketh it down with her hands.

Every wise woman builds her household, but a foolish woman tears it down with her own hands.

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

Who can find a virtuous and capable wife? She is more precious than rubies.Her husband can trust her, and she will greatly enrich his life.She brings him good, not harm, all the days of her life.She finds wool and flax and busily spins it.She is like a merchant’s ship, bringing her food from afar.She gets up before dawn to prepare breakfast for her household and plan the day’s work for her servant girls.She goes to inspect a field and buys it; with her earnings she plants a vineyard.She is energetic and strong, a hard worker.She makes sure her dealings are profitable; her lamp burns late into the night.Her hands are busy spinning thread, her fingers twisting fiber.She extends a helping hand to the poor and opens her arms to the needy.She has no fear of winter for her household, for everyone has warm clothes.She makes her own bedspreads. She dresses in fine linen and purple gowns.Her husband is well known at the city gates, where he sits with the other civic leaders.She makes belted linen garments and sashes to sell to the merchants.She is clothed with strength and dignity, and she laughs without fear of the future.When she speaks, her words are wise, and she gives instructions with kindness.She carefully watches everything in her household and suffers nothing from laziness.Her children stand and bless her. Her husband praises her:“ There are many virtuous and capable women in the world, but you surpass them all!”Charm is deceptive, and beauty does not last; but a woman who fears the Lord will be greatly praised.Reward her for all she has done. Let her deeds publicly declare her praise.

A house is built by wisdom and becomes strong through good sense.Through knowledge its rooms are filled with all sorts of precious riches and valuables.

It’s better to live alone in the desert than with a quarrelsome, complaining wife.

It’s better to live alone in the corner of an attic than with a quarrelsome wife in a lovely home.

Then the elders and all the people standing in the gate replied,“ We are witnesses! May the Lord make this woman who is coming into your home like Rachel and Leah, from whom all the nation of Israel descended! May you prosper in Ephrathah and be famous in Bethlehem.

A foolish child is a calamity to a father; a quarrelsome wife is as annoying as constant dripping.

The woman named Folly is brash. She is ignorant and doesn’t know it.She sits in her doorway on the heights overlooking the city.She calls out to men going by who are minding their own business.

When Athaliah, the mother of King Ahaziah of Judah, learned that her son was dead, she began to destroy the rest of the royal family.

“ The members of Ahab’s family who die in the city will be eaten by dogs, and those who die in the field will be eaten by vultures.”( No one else so completely sold himself to what was evil in the Lord’s sight as Ahab did under the influence of his wife Jezebel.

And as though it were not enough to follow the sinful example of Jeroboam, he married Jezebel, the daughter of King Ethbaal of the Sidonians, and he began to bow down in worship of Baal.