| Proverbs 31:3 Parallel Translations |  |
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| NASB: | Do not give your strength to women, Or your ways to that which destroys kings. (NASB ©1995) |
| GWT: | Don't give your strength to women or your power to those who ruin kings.(GOD'S WORD®) |
| KJV: | Give not thy strength unto women, nor thy ways to that which destroyeth kings. |
| ASV: | Give not thy strength unto women, Nor thy ways to that which destroyeth kings. |
| BBE: | Do not give your strength to women, or your ways to that which is the destruction of kings. |
| DBY: | Give not thy strength unto women, nor thy ways to them that destroy kings. |
| ERV: | Give not thy strength unto women, nor thy ways to that which destroyeth kings. |
| JPS: | Give not thy strength unto women, nor thy ways to that which destroyeth kings. |
| WBS: | Give not thy strength to women, nor thy ways to that which destroyeth kings. |
| WEB: | Don't give your strength to women, nor your ways to that which destroys kings. |
| YLT: | Give not to women thy strength, And thy ways to wiping away of kings. |
| Proverbs 31:3 Cross References |
| XREF: | Deuteronomy 17:17 "He shall not multiply wives for himself, or else his heart will turn away; nor shall he greatly increase silver and gold for himself.
1 Kings 11:1 Now King Solomon loved many foreign women along with the daughter of Pharaoh: Moabite, Ammonite, Edomite, Sidonian, and Hittite women,
Nehemiah 13:26 "Did not Solomon king of Israel sin regarding these things? Yet among the many nations there was no king like him, and he was loved by his God, and God made him king over all Israel; nevertheless the foreign women caused even him to sin.
Proverbs 5:9 Or you will give your vigor to others And your years to the cruel one; (NASB ©1995) |
| Commentaries and Concordances |
| GSB: | 31:3 Give not thy strength to women, {d} nor thy ways to that which destroyeth kings.
(d) Meaning, that women are the destruction of kings, if they hunt them. |
| WES: | 31:3 Strength - The vigour of thy mind and body. Ways - Thy conversation, repeated in other words. |
| MHC: | 31:1-9 When children are under the mother's eye, she has an opportunity of fashioning their minds aright. Those who are grown up, should often call to mind the good teaching they received when children. The many awful instances of promising characters who have been ruined by vile women, and love of wine, should warn every one to avoid these evils. Wine is to be used for want or medicine. Every creature of God is good, and wine, though abused, has its use. By the same rule, due praise and consolation should be used as cordials to the dejected and tempted, not administered to the confident and self-sufficient. All in authority should be more carefully temperate even than other men; and should be protectors of those who are unable or afraid to plead their own cause. Our blessed Lord did not decline the bitterest dregs of the cup of sorrow put into his hands; but he puts the cup of consolation into the hands of his people, and causes those to rejoice who are in the deepest distress. |
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