Proverbs 31:19 (BSB)

She stretches out her hands to the distaff and grasps the spindle with her fingers.

From Proverbs 31. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 31:19

• 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 31:19: She layeth her hands to the spindle,.... As Penelope and her maidens did (t). Or spinning wheel, more properly, the wheel itself, which is laid hold on by the right hand, and turned round; and her hands hold the distaff; the rock, stick, or staff, about which the wool is wrapped, which is spun, and is held in the left hand; for though hands are...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 31:19: No work, however mean, if honest, is disdained.
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 31:19: Pro 31:19 19 י She putteth her hand to the rock Spinnrocken; And her fingers lay hold on the spindle. She applies herself to the work of spinning, and performs it with skill. The phrase שׁלּח יד בּ (שׁלח, Job 28:9) signifies to take up an object of work, and תּמך, with obj. accus. (cf. Amo 1:5), the handling of the instrument of work necessary thereto.