A wife of noble character(A) is her husband’s crown,
    but a disgraceful wife is like decay in his bones.(B)

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A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband: but she that maketh ashamed is as rottenness in his bones.

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Epilogue: The Wife of Noble Character

10 [a]A wife of noble character(A) who can find?(B)
    She is worth far more than rubies.

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Footnotes

  1. Proverbs 31:10 Verses 10-31 are an acrostic poem, the verses of which begin with the successive letters of the Hebrew alphabet.

10 Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.

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12 She brings him good, not harm,
    all the days of her life.

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12 She will do him good and not evil all the days of her life.

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