| 1611 - 360 pages
...So that he shall have no need of spoil. She will do him good and not evil All the days of her life. She seeketh wool, and flax, And worketh willingly with her hands. She is like the merchants' ships ; She bringeth her food from afar. She riseth also while it is yet night,... | |
| James Anderson - Scotland - 1722 - 440 pages
...gewgaws of London and Paris. " Who can ** find a virtuous woman ? foi her price is far above ru" bies. She seeketh wool and flax, and worketh willingly " with her hands. She riseth also while it is yet " night, giveth meat to her household, and a portion to her K maidens.... | |
| 1801 - 432 pages
...were judged the best proofs of her goodness that couU be submitted to the inspection of an apostle. " She seeketh wool and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands. She layeth her hands to th* spindle, and her hands hold the distaff. ' She girdeth her loins with strength, and strengtheneth... | |
| 1804 - 498 pages
...that he shall have no need of spoil. " She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life. " She seeketh wool and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands. " She is like the merchants ships, she bringeth her food from afar. " She riseth also while it is yet night,... | |
| Sacred hours - 1804 - 500 pages
...her husband doth safely trust in her ; she will do him good and not evil all the days of her life. She seeketh wool, and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands. She is like the merchants' ships; she bringeth her food from afar. She riseth also while it is yet night,... | |
| Job Orton, Robert Gentleman - Bible - 1805 - 474 pages
...study to oblige and please him ; and tins, not 13 only in sudden Jits of good humour, but all her days. She seeketh wool, and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands ; she provides employment for her servants, and sets them a good example. 14 She is like the merchants' ships... | |
| François de Salignac de La Mothe- Fénelon - Women - 1805 - 266 pages
...so that he shall have no need of spoil. She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life. She seeketh wool, and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands. She is like the merchant ships, she bringeth her food from afar. She riseth also while it is yet night,... | |
| Gleaner - 1805 - 426 pages
...best proofs of her goodness that could be submitted to the inspection of an apostle. " She seekcth wool and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands. She layeth her hands to the spindle, and her hands hold the distan'. She girdeth her loins with strength, and strengtheneth... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English essays - 1807 - 334 pages
...that he shall have no need of spoil. " She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life. " She seeketh wool and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands. " She is like the merchants ships, she bringeth her food from afar. " She riseth also while it is yet night,... | |
| New Church gen. confer - 1877 - 624 pages
...housetop to dry or bleach. Then in Solomon's description of the good and virtuous domesticated woman — " She seeketh wool and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands .... She layeth her hands to the spindle, and her hands hold the distaff " (Prov. xxxi. 1319). In Isaiah xlii. 3 we have... | |
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