She seeketh wool, and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands.
Ver. 13. She seeketh wool and flax.] This was held no shame for Solomon's wife. Augustus Caesar taught his daughters to spin and card; he wore no garments but what his wife and daughters made him. The like is reported of Charles the Great. Spinster, they say, is a term given the greatest women in our law. Rebecca was a dainty cook; so was Tamar, David's daughter. 2Sa 13:7-10 By Mohammed's law, the grand Turk himself must be of some trade.
And worketh willingly with her hands.] As if her hands did desire to do what she put them to do, for so the original soundeth: "She worketh with the will of her hands." The Vulgate render it, "with the counsel of her hands," as if her hands were oculatae. She discreetly and cheerfully rids her work - with fervour and forecast.