Proverbs 11:16

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.

Related Commentaries of Proverbs 11:16

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Or, “The gracious woman wins and keeps honor, as (the conjunction may be so rendered) strong men win riches.”
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

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...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

gracious woman. Compare the woman of Folly ( Proverbs 9:13 ). And strong men, &c. Septuagint and Syriac read, "but the diligent".
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

A gracious woman retaineth honour: and strong men retain riches. A gracious woman retaineth honor - Instead of this clause, the Septuagint have, Γυ...
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

A gracious woman retaineth honour— The LXX, Syriac, and Arabic versions have two hemistichs which are here omitted; namely, the second of this, and...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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 frau...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

A gracious woman retaineth honour: and strong men retain riches. A gracious woman retaineth honour; and strong men retain riches. The Hebrew...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

1. False weights were exceedingly common ( Proverbs 16:11 ; Proverbs 20:10 ; Amos 8:5 ).
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

A woman of gracious disposition and manners obtains honour.
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

CHAPTER 12 GOODNESS "The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them." Proverbs 11:6 "An unjust man is the abomination of the righteous, a...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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 expectati...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

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...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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 b...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

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 Lem...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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, a...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

16 A gracious woman retaineth honour: and strong men retain riches. Here, 1. It is allowed that strong men retain riches, that t...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

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 a...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Further Contrasts Between The Righteous And The Unrighteous ( Proverbs 11:15-23 ). In this subsection we again have the continual contrast between...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES.— Proverbs 11:16 . Last clause “as strong men retain,” or “grasp at riches.” MAIN HOMILETICS OF Proverbs 11:16 A GRACIOUS W...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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...
The Biblical Illustrator

A gracious woman retaineth honour. The honour of woman Here the sexes are put in beautiful apposition: woman is gracious, man is strong. Gracio...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Proverbs 11:1 A false balance; literally, balances of deceit ( Proverbs 20:23 ). The repetition of the injunctions of Deute...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

v. 16. A gracious woman retaineth honor, her amiable and pleasant disposition, her grace and charm, give her an honored and powerful standing in th...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Gracious woman — A woman endued with the grace of God. Retaineth — Or, holdeth fast her honour, or reputation.

¹⁶ A gracious woman retaineth honour: and strong men retain riches.

Related Commentaries of Proverbs 11:16

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

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