Proverbs 30:23 (BSB)

an unloved woman who marries, and a maidservant who supplants her mistress.

From Proverbs 30. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 30:23

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 30:18-23: Here is, I. An account of four things that are unsearchable, too wonderful to be fully known. And here, 1. The first three are natural things, and are only designed as comparisons for the illustration of the last. We cannot trace, (1.) An eagle in the air.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 30:23: For an odious woman, when she is married,.... Odious for her person, her ugliness, and the deformity of her body; or rather for the ill qualities of her mind, which, while single, she endeavours to conceal, but, being married, hides them no longer; but becomes imperious, proud, scornful, and malicious, and behaves in an ill natured way to her husband and all about her, to...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 30:23: heir . . . mistress--that is, takes her place as a wife (Gen 16:4).
• Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Proverbs 30:23: For an odious [woman] when she is married; and an handmaid that is heir to her mistress. (m) Who is married to her master after the death of her mistress.