Proverbs 30:23

For an odious woman when she is married; and an handmaid that is heir to her mistress.

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Odious woman - One in whom there is nothing loveable. Marriage, which to most women is the state in which they find scope for their highest quali...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

For an odious [woman] when she is married; and an handmaid that is (m) heir to her mistress. (m) Who is married to her master after the death of her...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Proverbs 30. The Sayings of Agur. It is uncertain whether the title embraces the whole chapter or Proverbs 30:1-9 , or Proverbs 30:1-4 only....
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

is heirto . has dispossessed, or become heiress to.
Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

For three things the earth is disquieted— We have here an answer to another enigmatical question, What things are most intolerable? Which he tells...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

For an odious woman when she is married; and an handmaid that is heir to her mistress. For an odious (woman) when she is married - for by her...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The Words of Agur The simplest way of treating the title is to read as follows: 'The words of Agur, son of Yakeh, of Massa.' Then we may proceed,...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

The odious woman is the one who has long been rejected, but she secures a husband at last. A handmaid, etc.] Either she inherits from, or she sup...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

For an odious woman when she is married. — She pays off, with interest, the slights which she had formerly to endure from her married friends. An...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

CHAPTER 31 THE WORDS OF AGUR THE rendering of the first verse of this chapter is very uncertain. Without attempting to discuss the many conjectur...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Lessons from Common Things Proverbs 30:18-33 We have four more quatrains. 1. There are the four wonders that baffle Agur's understanding. How...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

The horseleach hath two daughters, crying, Give, give. There are three things that are never satisfied, yea, four things say not, It is enough: The g...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

For an odious [woman], when she is married ,.... Odious for her person, her ugliness, and the deformity of her body; or rather for the ill qualities...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

For an odious [woman] when she is married; and an handmaid that is heir to her mistress. Ver. 23. For an odious woman when she is married. ] Suc...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

For three things the earth That is, the inhabitants of the earth; is disquieted By their insolence and impudence they cause great disturbances in...
L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

In THE FIVE Chapter S now completed are proverbs of Solomon copied out by Hezekiah's servants. The last two Chapter s show a distinct change in chara...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Four Things Little and Wise. 18 There be three things which are too...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Odious; proud, and perverse, and full of hateful and offensive qualities. When she is married; for then she displayeth and exerciseth all those i...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES.— Proverbs 30:23 . Odious , or unloved . MAIN HOMILETICS OF THE PARAGRAPH.— Proverbs 30:21-23 BURDENS GRIEVOUS TO BE BORNE...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Proverbs 30:1 . The words of Agur. The style of this book seems to be much older than that of Solomon. Its simplicity very well agrees with the ti...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Proverbs 30:1-20 Part VII. FIRST APPENDIX TO THE SECOND COLLECTION , containing "the words of Agur." A short introd...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Deducing Truths from Common Experience
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

for an odious woman when she is married, for an old maid, disagreeable in disposition, is apt to repay the contempt which she suffered from others in...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Proverbs 19:13 ; Proverbs 21:19 ; Proverbs 21:9 ; Proverbs 27:15 ; Proverbs 29:21
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

An odious — Proud, and perverse. Married — For then she displays all those ill humours, which before, she concealed. Is heir — Which great and sudd...

²³ For an odious woman when she is married; and an handmaid that is heir to her mistress.

Related Commentaries of Proverbs 30:23

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

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

L. M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Proverbs 30:23