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Selected Verse: Proverbs 30:23 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Pr 30:23 |
King James |
For an odious woman when she is married; and an handmaid that is heir to her mistress. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
| heir . . . mistress--that is, takes her place as a wife (Gen 16:4). |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
| Odious woman - One in whom there is nothing loveable. Marriage, which to most women is the state in which they find scope for their highest qualities, becomes to her only a sphere in which to make herself and others miserable. |
| Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65] |
| An odious - Proud, and perverse. Married - For then she displays all those ill humours, which before, she concealed. Is heir - Which great and sudden change transports her beside herself, and makes her insufferably proud and scornful. |
4 And he went in unto Hagar, and she conceived: and when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes.