Proverbs 31:30 (BSB)

Charm is deceptive and beauty is fleeting, but a woman who fears the LORD is to be praised.

From Proverbs 31. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 31:30

• 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 31:30: Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain,.... A well favoured look, a graceful countenance, symmetry and proportion of parts, natural or artificial beauty, are vain and deceitful; oftentimes under them lies an ill natured, deformed, and depraved mind; nor is the pleasure and satisfaction enjoyed as is promised along with these; and particularly how do they fade (e) and consume away by a fit of...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 31:30: Favour--or, "Grace" of personal manner. beauty--of face, or form (compare Pro 11:22). True piety alone commands permanent respect and affection (Pe1 3:3).
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 31:30: Pro 31:30 What now follows is not a continuation of the husband’s words of praise (Ewald, Elster, Löwenstein), but an epiphonema auctoris (Schultens); the poet confirms the praise of the husband by referring it to the general ground of its reason: 30 ש Grace is deceit; and beauty, vanity - A wife that feareth Jahve, she shall be praised.