Proverbs 31:13 (BSB)

She selects wool and flax and works with eager hands.

From Proverbs 31. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 31:13

• 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 31:13: She seeketh wool and flax,.... To get them, in order to spin them, and work them up into garments; she stays not till they are brought to her, and she is pressed to take them; but she seeks after them, which shows her willingness to work, as is after more fully expressed.
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 31:13: Ancient women of rank thus wrought with their hands; and such, indeed, were the customs of Western women a few centuries since. In the East also, the fabrics were articles of merchandise.
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 31:13: Pro 31:13 The poet now describes how she disposes of things: 13 ד She careth for wool and flax, And worketh these with her hands’ pleasure. The verb דּרשׁ proceeds, as the Arab. shows, from the primary meaning terere; but to translate with reference thereto: tractat lanam et linum (lxx, Schultens, Dathe, Rosemüller, Fleischer), is inadmissible. The Heb.