Proverbs Chapter 31 verse 27 Holy Bible
She looketh well to the ways of her household, And eateth not the bread of idleness.
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She gives attention to the ways of her family, she does not take her food without working for it.
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She surveyeth the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness.
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She looketh well to the ways of her household, and eateth not the bread of idleness.
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She looks well to the ways of her household, And doesn't eat the bread of idleness.
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She `is' watching the ways of her household, And bread of sloth she eateth not.
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Proverbs 31 : 27 Bible Verse Songs
Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 27. - TSADE. She looketh well to the ways of her house; the actions and habits of the household. She exercises careful surveillance over all that goes on in the family. Eateth not the bread of idleness; but rather bread won by active labour and conscientious diligence. She is of the opinion of the apostle who said "that if any would not work, neither should he eat" (2 Thessalonians 3:10). Septuagint, "The ways of her house are confined (στεγναὶ διατριβαὶ οἴκων αὐτῆς), and she eats not idle bread." The first of these clauses may mean that the proceedings of her household, being confined to a narrow circle, are readily supervised. But the meaning is very doubtful; and Schleusner renders, "continuae conversationes in aedibus ejus." St. Gregory applies our verse to the conscience, thus: "She considers the ways of her house, because she accurately examines all the thoughts of her conscience. She eateth not her bread in idleness, because that which she learned out of Holy Scripture by her understanding, she places before the eyes of the Judge by exhibiting it in her works" ('Moral.,' 35:47).
