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29 “Many daughters have done excellence,[a]
    but you surpass[b] all of them.”
30 Charm[c] is deceit and beauty[d] is vain;[e]
    but a woman who fears Yahweh shall be praised.
31 Give to her from the fruit of her hand,
    and may they praise her works in the city gates.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 31:29 Or “strength,” or “valor,” or “ability,” or “efficiency”
  2. Proverbs 31:29 Literally “you ascend over”
  3. Proverbs 31:30 Hebrew “The charm”
  4. Proverbs 31:30 Hebrew “the beauty”
  5. Proverbs 31:30 Or “vapor,” or “emptiness,” or “breath”