 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
 | John Morton (P.M.P.) - 1856 - 96 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... | |
 | Young Men's Christian Association (England) - Religion and culture - 1856 - 456 pages
...above rubies; and a large portion of the commendation conferred is for her diligence in manual toils. "She seeketh wool and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands. She consideceth afield and buyeth it; with the fruit of her hands she planteth a vineyard. She girdeth... | |
 | Handicraft - 1857 - 34 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,... | |
 | John James - Weaving - 1857 - 728 pages
...known to the Hebrews. The Babylonians became famous for their manufacture of • Prov., xxxi. — " She seeketh wool and flax, and worketh willingly with her "hands." " She hiyeth her hands to the spindle, and her hands hold the distafE" See also the following verses. Compare... | |
 | James Brown - Framingham (Mass.) - 1857 - 72 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 ships of the merchants ; she bringeth her food from afar. SHE riseth also while it is yet... | |
 | Abba Solomon Eban - Jews - 1984 - 376 pages
...the poem attributes to the mistress of what is obviously, for Biblical times, a well-to-do household: She seeketh wool, and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands . . . She riseth also while it is yet night, and giveth meat to her household, and a portion to her maidens.... | |
 | Barbara Damashek, Molly Newman - Drama - 1986 - 108 pages
...Proverbs — Chapter 31, Verse 10. O 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 perceiveth that her merchandise is good. MAMA. Amen! (Joy has stealthily grabbed hold of the bolt and... | |
 | John Casey, John Peter Anthony Casey - Cardinal virtues - 1990 - 260 pages
...substantially independent of the father. Her role in chrematistic might be as far-reaching as it is in Proverbs: She seeketh wool, and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands . . . She considereth a field, and buyeth it: with the fruit of her hands she planteth a vineyard . . . She perceiveth... | |
 | Angela Howard, Sasha Ranaé Adams Tarrant - Anti-feminism - 1997 - 394 pages
...so that he shall hare no need of spoil. She will do him good and not eril all the days of her life. She seeketh wool and flax, and worketh willingly with her hands. She is like the merehants' ships I she bringeth her food from afar. She riseth also while it is yet night,... | |
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