“ A gracious woman retaineth honour: and strong men retain riches. ”
Or, “The gracious woman wins and keeps honor, as (the conjunction may be so rendered) strong men win riches.”
Proverbs 11. The orthodox view of strictly retributive justice found in Proverbs 10:24 f., Proverbs 11:27-30 is represented by a further group ( Proverbs 11:2-8 ; Proverbs 11:18-21 , and Prov...
gracious woman. Compare the woman of Folly ( Proverbs 9:13 ). And strong men, &c. Septuagint and Syriac read, "but the diligent".
A gracious woman retaineth honour: and strong men retain riches. A gracious woman retaineth honor - Instead of this clause, the Septuagint have, Γυνη ευχαριστος εγειρει ανδρι δοζαν, "A gracious wom...
A gracious woman retaineth honour— The LXX, Syriac, and Arabic versions have two hemistichs which are here omitted; namely, the second of this, and the first of the next verse. They read, A gracio...
A false balance is abomination to the Lord: but a just weight is his delight. Under this prohibition of "a false balance" is forbidden all fraud, by whatsoever suns of deception it may be commi...
1. False weights were exceedingly common ( Proverbs 16:11 ; Proverbs 20:10 ; Amos 8:5 ).
A gracious woman retaineth honour ... — Each sex has its own power. A woman by her attractiveness wins and retains favour, a man by his strength and riches.
CHAPTER 12 GOODNESS "The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them." Proverbs 11:6 "An unjust man is the abomination of the righteous, and he who goes right in his way is the abomination...
Verse Proverbs 11:7 . The antithesis of this proverb is between the condition described and that of one not described, that is to say, the expectation or hope of the wicked lies wholly on this side...
A gracious woman retaineth honour: and strong men retain riches. The merciful man doeth good to his own soul: but he that is cruel troubleth his own flesh. The wicked worketh a deceitful work: but to...
A gracious woman retaineth honour ,.... Or "a woman of grace" s one that has the grace of God in her heart, and is of a virtuous conversation, and by both amiable and lovely to others; as she receiv...
A gracious woman retaineth honour: and strong [men] retain riches. Ver. 16. A gracious woman retaineth honour. ] Such a one as is set forth in Lemuel's lesson, Pro 31:10-31 such as was Sarah, Debo...
A gracious woman Hebrew, אשׁת חן, a woman of grace; one endued with the saving grace of God, and who, by humility, meekness, modesty, prudence, and other virtues, renders herself acceptable and a...
16 A gracious woman retaineth honour: and strong men retain riches. Here, 1. It is allowed that strong men retain riches, that those who bustle in the world, who are men of spiri...
A gracious woman, Heb. a woman of grace and favour , i.e. one who by her meekness, and modesty, and prudence, and other virtues, renders herself acceptable and amiable to God and to men. Retainet...
Further Contrasts Between The Righteous And The Unrighteous ( Proverbs 11:15-23 ). In this subsection we again have the continual contrast between the righteous, the gracious, the merciful and the...
CRITICAL NOTES.— Proverbs 11:16 . Last clause “as strong men retain,” or “grasp at riches.” MAIN HOMILETICS OF Proverbs 11:16 A GRACIOUS WOMAN I. What is a gracious woman? 1. She is o...
Proverbs 11:1 . A false balance is an abomination to the Lord. A dishonest tradesman here receives a hard stroke. Though his weight be but little short of the standard; yet by using it a thousand...
A gracious woman retaineth honour. The honour of woman Here the sexes are put in beautiful apposition: woman is gracious, man is strong. Graciousness dissociated from strength has indeed an inf...
EXPOSITION Proverbs 11:1 A false balance; literally, balances of deceit ( Proverbs 20:23 ). The repetition of the injunctions of Deuteronomy 25:13 , Deuteronomy 25:14 and Leviticus...
v. 16. A gracious woman retaineth honor, her amiable and pleasant disposition, her grace and charm, give her an honored and powerful standing in the community; and strong men retain riches, makin...
1 Samuel 25:32 ; 1 Samuel 25:33 ; 2 John 1:1 ; 2 Samuel 20:16-22 ; Acts 16:14 ; Acts 16:15 ; Acts 9:39 ; Esther 9:25 ; Luke 10:42 ; Luke 11:21 ; Luke 11:22 ; Luke 21:2-4 ; Luke 8:3 ; Ma...
Gracious woman — A woman endued with the grace of God. Retaineth — Or, holdeth fast her honour, or reputation.