Proverbs 31:27 (BSB)

She watches over the affairs of her household and does not eat the bread of idleness.

From Proverbs 31. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 31:27

• 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 31:27: She looketh well to the ways of her household,.... The business of her house, her domestic affairs; that her children and servants have convenient food, and in due season; that they have proper clothing, and keep their garments close about them, and unspotted; that everyone does the business of his calling, her several officers, and private members; that a good decorum is kept, that all...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 31:27: (Compare Ti1 5:14; Tit 2:5). She adds to her example a wise management of those under her control.
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 31:27: Pro 31:27 27 צ She looketh well to the ways of her house, And eateth not the bread of idleness. Although there exists an inner relation between 27a and Pro 31:26, yet 27a is scarcely to be thought of (Hitzig) as appos. to the suffix in לשׁונהּ.