Proverbs 31:12 (BSB)
She brings him good and not harm all the days of her life.
From Proverbs 31. Also in the ESV.
Commentary on Proverbs 31:12
- Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 31:10-31: This description of the virtuous woman is designed to show what wives the women should make and what wives the men should choose; it consists of twenty-two verses, each beginning with a letter of the Hebrew alphabet in order, as some of the Psalms, which makes some think it was no part of the lesson which Lemuel's mother taught him, but a poem by itself...
- John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 31:12: She will do him good, and not evil,.... Or, repay good unto him, give him thanks for all the good things bestowed by him on her; will seek his interest, and promote his honour and glory to the uttermost; all the good works she does, which she is qualified for, and ready to perform, are all done in his name and strength, and with a...
- Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 31:12: Pro 31:12 12 ג She doeth good to him, and not evil, All the days of her life; or, as Luther translates: “Sie thut jm liebs und kein leids.” [She does him good, and no harm.] She is far from ever doing him evil, she does him only good all her life long; her love is not dependent on freaks, it rests on deep moral...