A Mulher Virtuosa
4 The virtuous woman [is] a crown to her husband, but she that makes ashamed [is] as rottenness in his bones.
10 [Aleph] Who can find a valiant woman? for her price [is] far above precious stones.
11 [Beth] The heart of her husband safely trusts in her, so that he shall have no need of spoil.
12 [Gimel] She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life.
13 [Daleth] She sought wool and flax and worked willingly with her hands.
14 [He] She was like the merchants' ships; she brings her food from afar.
15 [Vau] She rose up even at night and gave food to her family and a portion to her maidens.
16 [Zain] She considered the inheritance and bought it; with the fruit of her hands she planted a vineyard.
17 [Cheth] She girded her loins with strength and strengthened her arms.
18 [Teth] She perceived that her merchandise [was] good; her fire did not go out by night.
19 [Jod] She laid her hands to the spindle, and her hands held the distaff.
20 [Caph] She stretched out her hand to the poor; [yea], she reached forth her hands to the destitute.
1 Every wise woman builds her house, but the foolish plucks it down with her hands.
9 In like manner also that the women adorn themselves in an honest manner, with shyness and modesty, not with ostentatious hair or gold or pearls or costly clothing
10 but with good works (as becomes women professing godliness).
3 The aged women likewise, that [they be] in behaviour as becomes holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of honesty;
4 that they may teach the young women to be prudent, to love their husbands, to love their children,
5 [to be] temperate, chaste, good housekeepers, subject to their own husbands, that the word of God not be blasphemed.
14 House and riches [are] the inheritance from fathers, but the prudent wife [is] from the LORD.
30 [Schin] Grace [is] deceitful, and beauty [is] vain, [but] the woman that fears the LORD shall be praised.
11 And now, my daughter, fear not; I will do unto thee all that thou hast said, for all the city of my people know that thou [art] a valiant woman.