1The words of Lemuel, the king; the vision by which his mother taught him.
2What, my darling? what, the darling of my womb? what, the darling of my desires?
3Give thou not thy chattel or thy substance to women, and thy riches to do away kings.
4A! Lemuel, do not thou give wine to kings; for no privacy there is, where drunkenness reigneth.
5Lest peradventure they drink, and forget dooms, and change the cause of the sons of a poor man.
6Give ye cider to them that mourn, and wine to them that be of bitter soul.
7Drink they, and forget they their neediness; and think they no more on their sorrow.
8Open thy mouth for a dumb man, and open thy mouth for the causes of all sons that pass forth.
9Deem thou that that is just, and deem thou a needy man and a poor man.
10Who shall find a strong woman? the price of her is a far, and from the last or utmost ends.
11The heart of her husband trusteth in her; and he shall not have need to robberies.
12She shall yield to him good, and not evil, in all the days of her life.
13She sought wool and flax; and wrought by the counsel of her hands.
14She is made as the ship of a merchant, that beareth his bread from a far.
15And she rose by night, and gave lifelode to her menials, and meats to her handmaidens.
16She beheld a field, and bought it; of the fruit of her hands she planted a vinery or a vineyard.
17She girded her loins with strength, and made strong her arm.
18She tasted, and saw, that her merchandise was good; her lantern shall not be quenched in the night.
19She put her hands to the wharve, and her fingers took the spindle.
20She opened her hand to the needy man, and stretched forth her hands to a poor man.
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Proverbs 31
Proverbs 31:1-20