Proverbs 31:29 (BSB)

“Many daughters have done noble things, but you surpass them all!”

From Proverbs 31. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 31:29

  • 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 31:29: Many daughters have done virtuously,.... This, according to Aben Ezra and Gersom, is what was said by her husband and children, and which seems to be right; especially they may be thought to be the words of her husband. By these "daughters" may be meant false churches, such as the church of Rome and her daughters, who is the mother of harlots, Rev 17:17.
  • Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 31:29: The words are those of her husband, praising her. virtuously--(Compare Pro 31:10).
  • Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 31:29: Pro 31:29 29 ר “Many are the daughters who have done bravely, But thou hast surpassed them all together.” We have already often remarked, last time under Pro 29:6, that רב, not indeed in its sing., but in its plur.