Font Size
Proverbs 31:29-31
New Catholic Bible
Proverbs 31:29-31
New Catholic Bible
29 “Many are the women who have done admirable things,[a]
but you outdo them all.”
30 Charm is deceptive[b] and beauty is fleeting,
but the woman who fears the Lord is to be praised.
31 Give her a share in what her hands have accomplished,[c]
and let her works bring her praise at the city gates.
Footnotes
- Proverbs 31:29 Many . . . have done admirable things: see Isa 32:20.
- Proverbs 31:30 Charm is deceptive: see Prov 5:3. Beauty is fleeting: see Job 14:2; 1 Pet 3:3-5. Who fears the Lord: see note on Prov 1:7.
- Proverbs 31:31 Share in what her hands have accomplished: see Prov 12:14. Bring her praise: because of her “humility and fear of the Lord” (Prov 22:4).