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23     a bitter woman who finally gets a husband,
    a servant girl who supplants her mistress.

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21-23 There are three things that make the earth tremble—no, four it cannot stand:

A slave who becomes a king.

A rebel who prospers.

A bitter woman when she finally marries.

A servant girl who marries the husband of her mistress.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 30:21 who marries the husband of her mistress, literally, “who succeeds her mistress.”