Proverbs 31:25 (BSB)

Strength and honor are her clothing, and she can laugh at the days to come.

From Proverbs 31. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 31:25

  • 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 31:25: Strength and honour are her clothing,.... Strength, not of body, but of mind. The church is clothed with strength, as her Lord, head, and husband, is said to be, Psa 93:1; and which she has from him; for though she is the weaker vessel, and weak in herself, yet is strong in him; and is able to bear and do all things, with a fortitude...
  • Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 31:25: Strength and honour--Strong and beautiful is her clothing; or, figuratively, for moral character, vigorous and honorable. shall rejoice . . . come--in confidence of certain maintenance.
  • Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Proverbs 31:25: Strength and honour [are] her clothing; and she shall rejoice in time to come. (m) After he had spoken of the apparel of the body, he now declares the apparel of the spirit.