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14 She is like a sailing ship
that brings food
    from across the sea.
15 She gets up before daylight
to prepare food for her family
    and for her servants.[a]
16 She knows how to buy land
and how to plant a vineyard,

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Footnotes

  1. 31.15 and … servants: Or “and to tell her servants what to do.”

14 She is like the merchant ships,
    bringing her food from afar.
15 She gets up while it is still night;
    she provides food for her family
    and portions for her female servants.
16 She considers a field and buys it;
    out of her earnings she plants a vineyard.

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