Proverbs 31:31 (BSB)

Give her the fruit of her hands, and let her works praise her at the gates.

From Proverbs 31. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 31:31

• 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 31:31: Give her of the fruit of her hands,.... According to Aben Ezra, these are the words of her husband to her children; exhorting them to give her the praise and glory that is due unto her. Jarchi interprets it of the world to come; at which time, it is certain, the graces of the church, and of all believers, which are the fruits of the...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 31:31: The result of her labor is her best eulogy. Nothing can add to the simple beauty of this admirable portrait. On the measure of its realization in the daughters of our own day rest untold results, in the domestic, and, therefore, the civil and religious, welfare of the people. Next: Ecclesiastes Introduction
• Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Proverbs 31:31: Give her of the fruit of her hands; and let her own works praise her in the gates. (p) Confess her diligent labours, and commend her therefore. (q) Forasmuch as the most honourable are clad in the apparel that she made.