 She seeketh wool, and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands. She is like the merchants' ships; she bringeth her food from afar. She riseth also while it is yet night, and giveth meat to her household, and a portion to her maidens. She considereth...  The Atlantic Monthly - Page 4961914Full view - About this book
 | Jesse Torrey - Ethics - 1830 - 336 pages
...with food convenient for me. 17 Who can find a virtuous woman ? for her price is far above rubies. She seeketh wool, and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands. She is like the merchants' ships ; she bringeth Ker food from afar. She riseth also while it is yet night,... | |
 | François de Salignac de La Mothe- Fénelon - Women - 1831 - 204 pages
...so that he shall have no need of spoil. She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life. She seeketh wool and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands. She is like the merchants' ships> she bringeth her food from afar. She riseth also while it is yet night,... | |
 | Religion - 1853 - 1142 pages
...so that he shall have no need of spoil. She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life. She seeketh wool, and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands. She is like the merchants' ships : she bringeth her food from afar. She riseth also while it is yet night,... | |
 | Isaac Barrow - Sermons, English - 1831 - 538 pages
...conscience, reason, and honor, is industrious. Of him it may be said, as of Solomon's good housewife, ' She seeketh wool and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands ; she is like the merchants' ship, she bringeth her food from afar ; she looketh well to her household, and... | |
 | Forests and forestry - 1832 - 440 pages
...offer yearly sacrifices. And, at a somewhat later period % Solomon thus describes the good wife, — " She seeketh wool and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands. She perceiveth that her merchandise is good. Her household are clothed with scarlet**." * Job nod. 20.... | |
 | John Robert McDowall - Prostitution - 1832 - 118 pages
...that he shall have no need of spoil. She will do him good, and not evil, all the days of her life. She seeketh wool and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands. She is like the merchant's ships, she bringeth her food from afar. She riseth also while it is yet night,... | |
 | John Evans - Life - 1834 - 306 pages
...so that he shall have no need of spoil. She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life. She seeketh wool, and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands. She is like the merchants' ships ; she bringeth her food from afar. She riseth also while it is yet night,... | |
 | Baptists - 1834 - 680 pages
...she will do (or rather, like the rest, she doeth) him good, and not evil, all the days of his life ; she seeketh wool and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands ; she is like the merchant's ships, and bringeth her food from far ; she considereth a field, and buyeth... | |
 | Henry Hunter - Bible - 1834 - 618 pages
...so that he shall have no need of spoil. She will do him good and not evil, all the days of her life. mall and great, Maud before God, and the book* were opened, and anot is like the merchants' ships, she bringeth her food from afar. She riseth also while it is yet night,... | |
 | Time - 1835 - 274 pages
...that he shall have no need of spoil. She will do him good, and not evil, all the days of her life. She seeketh wool, and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands. She is like the merchants' ships : she bringeth her food from afar. She riseth also while it is yet night,... | |
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