Proverbs 31:9-28

⁹Speak MTY ◄on their behalf/to help them► and try to cause judges to decide matters fairly/justly; try to cause others to do for poor and needy people what should be done for them.

¹⁰It is very difficult for a man to RHQ find a wife who is good and who is capable of doing many things. Any woman who is like that is worth more than jewels.

¹¹Her husband completely trusts her, and because of her, he has everything that he needs LIT.

¹²She never does anything that would harm him; she does good things for him all the days of her life.

¹³She finds wool and flax in the market, and she enjoys spinning it to make yarn.

¹⁴She is like SIM a ship that brings from far away goods/merchandise to sell, because she buys food that comes from far away.

¹⁵She gets up before dawn to prepare food for her family. Then she plans the work that her servant girls will do on that day.

¹⁶She goes out and looks at a field that someone wants to sell; and if it is a good field, she buys it. She buys grapevines MTY with the money that she has earned, and then she plants them.

¹⁷She works very hard IDM; she makes her arms strong by the work she does.

¹⁸She knows when she is getting a good profit from her business. When it is necessary, she works MTY until it is late at night.

¹⁹She holds the ◄spindle/rod which twists the thread that she is making►, and then she spins the thread MTY that she will use.

²⁰She generously helps MTY those who are poor and needy DOU.

²¹She is not worried that the people in her house will be cold in the winter, because she has made warm clothes for all of them.

²²She makes bedspreads/quilts for the beds. She wears fine linen clothes that are dyed purple, like queens wear.

²³Her husband is well known by the important people of the town; he sits with the other town leaders in the meetings of the town council.

²⁴She makes clothes from linen cloth and sells them. She sells sashes to shop owners.

²⁵She is strong in her character and respected/dignified, and she ◄laughs at/is not afraid of► what will happen in the future.

²⁶When she speaks, she says what is wise. When she gives instructions, she speaks MTY kindly (OR, faithfully).

²⁷She watches over everything that is done in her household, and she IDM is never lazy.

²⁸Her children all together speak highly of her, and her husband also praises her.