Proverbs 12:4 Cross References - Thomson

⁴ A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband: but a mischievous woman, like a Worm in wood, ruineth her husband.

¹ Wise women have built houses; but the foolish hath pulled them down with her hands.

³⁰ A meek minded man is a physician of the heart; but a heart of sensibility is a corroder of the bones.

¹³ A foolish son is a shame to a father. vows for the hire of a harlot are not pure. ¹⁴ Fathers bequeath houses and wealth to children; but the Lord accommodateth a wife to a husband.

⁹ It is better to dwell in a corner in the open air; than in apartments plaistered with injustice; and in a house which is not clean.

¹⁹ It is better to dwell in the wilderness than with a quarrelsome, clamorous and passionate wife.

¹⁵ A continual dropping driveth a man out of his house in a rainy day: and so doth a contentious wife. ¹⁶ Boreas is a harsh wind, though it be called by an honourable name.

¹⁰ Who can find a virtuous woman? Such a one is indeed more valuable than precious stones. ¹¹ The heart of her husband trusteth in her: such a one hath no need of spoils: ¹² for she laboureth for her husband's good all her life long. ¹³ Having spun wool and flax she made a useful work with her hands. ¹⁴ She was like a merchant vessel which bringeth riches from afar: ¹⁵ She arose by night and gave food to her household and work to her maids. ¹⁶ Having viewed a field she bought it, and with the fruits of her hands planted the purchase. ¹⁷ Having girded herself tight about the waist, she strengthened her arms for work. ¹⁸ And finding that it was good to work, her lamp is not extinguished the whole night. ¹⁹ Her elbows she extendeth over the spindle; and her hands she keepeth at the distaff. ²⁰ But she opened her hand to the needy; and stretched out her handful to the distressed. ²¹ Her husband when long abroad is not concerned for those at home: for all with her are well clothed. ²² She made for her husband double garments; and for herself robes of cotton and purple. ²³ And her husband is distinguished in the gates; when he sitteth in council with the elders of the land. ²⁴ She made sindons and sold girdles to the Chananites. She opened her mouth sparingly and with propriety; and had her tongue in due subjection. ²⁵ She clothed herself with majesty and excellence, and enjoyed delights in her latter days.

¹⁶ I watched myself; and at the sound of the prayer of my lips my bowels trembled and a tremor seized my bones; and under me my whole frame quivered. I shall be at rest in the day of affliction, at the time of his coining to the people of my neighbourhood.

⁷ For man indeed ought not to have his head covered, he being an image and a glory of God; but woman is a glory of man;

¹¹ Nevertheless, man is not without woman, nor woman without man in the Lord.