Proverbs 31:10
Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.
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Study Note
The opening of the celebrated 'Woman of Valor' (Eshet Chayil) poem, which concludes Proverbs 31:10-31 as an alphabetic acrostic, asks rhetorically who can find such a woman. The Hebrew 'chayil' (valor/strength) is the same word used for mighty warriors in the Hebrew Bible, indicating this portrait describes competence, courage, and initiative. Scholarly debate concerns whether the poem describes an idealized individual woman, a personification of wisdom, or an ideal of household management in an agrarian economy. Its placement at the end of Proverbs creates an inclusio with Proverbs 1-9's personified Woman Wisdom, suggesting the poem's subject may be wisdom incarnated in daily life.
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A worthy woman who can find? For her price is far above rubies.
A woman of worth who doth find? Yea, far above rubies <FI>is<Fi> her price.
Who may make discovery of a woman of virtue? For her price is much higher than jewels.
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