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Proverbs 10–31: A New Translation with Introduction and Commentary is unavailable, but you can change that!

This volume completes Bible scholar Michael V. Fox’s comprehensive commentary on the book of Proverbs in the Anchor Yale series. Fox translates and explains in accessible language the meaning and literary qualities of the sayings and poems that comprise the final chapters. He gives special attention to comparable sayings in other wisdom books, particularly from Egypt, and makes extensive use of...

12 She repays him with good, not evil all the days of her life. 13 She seeks out wool and flax, and she works with willing hands. 14 Like merchant ships she brings her bread from afar. 15 She rises while it is still night, and gives food to her household, and a portion to her maids. 16 She plans a field and buys it, from the fruit of her hands she plants a vineyard. 17 She girds her loins with power, and gives strength to her arms. 18 She realizes that her wares are good. Her lamp does not go out
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