29'Many [are] the daughters who have done worthily, Thou hast gone up above them all.'l
30The grace [is] false, and the beauty [is] vain, A woman fearing Jehovah, she may boast herself.m
31Give ye to her of the fruit of her hands, And her works do praise her in the gates!n
Proverbs 31 closes the book with two distinct but connected portraits: the wise instruction of a mother to her royal son, and the famous poem about a capable wife. The chapter moves from the dangers of power (wine, women, injustice) to the beauty of faithful, productive wisdom em
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