Proverbs Chapter 30 verse 23 Holy Bible
For an odious woman when she is married; And a handmaid that is heir to her mistress.
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A hated woman when she is married; and a servant-girl who takes the place of her master's wife.
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under an odious [woman] when she is married, and a handmaid when she is heir to her mistress.
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For an odious woman when she is married; and an handmaid that is heir to her mistress.
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For an unloved woman when she is married; And a handmaid who is heir to her mistress.
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For a hated one when she ruleth, And a maid-servant when she succeedeth her mistress.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 23. - For an odious woman when she is married; or, under an unloved woman when she is married. The sentence does not refer to an unbeloved wife, a Leah, becoming the favourite, a Rachel; the expression, "when she is married," can hardly have this sense; but the gnome speaks of a woman who has passed much of her life without love, having nothing about her attractive either in looks, attainments, or manner, and is consequently soured and ill-tempered. If such a one does at last win a husband, she uses her new position to vex those who formerly depreciated her, and to make them as miserable as she cam And a handmaid that is heir to her mistress. The maidservant that obtains her mistress's property, either by supplanting her or by right of inheritance, is supposed to make a bad use of it, to become conceited, arrogant, and odious to all around her. The LXX. transposes the last two members of the comparison, placing the unloved woman in the fourth place as the most intolerable of all: "And if a maidservant should cast out (ἐκβάλη, Genesis 21:10) her own mistress, and a hateful woman should obtain a good husband."
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(23) 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 handmaid that is heir to her mistress, and who is nervously anxious to preserve her newly-acquired dignity.
