Proverbs. Chapter thirty- one words of King Lemuel, the prophecy with which his mother taught him. What a son of mine and what a son of my womb and what a son of my desires. Do not give women your strength or your ways to what destroys kings. It is not of kings or Lemuel, it is not of kings to drink wine, nor of princes cider, lest they drink, forget the law, and pervert the right of all who are afflicted. Give cider to the faint and wine to the bitter-
hearted, drink and forget their need and their misery. Don' t remember any more. Open your mouth for the mute in the judgment of all the helpless. Open your mouth, judge righteously, and defend the cause of the poor and needy virtuous woman. Who will find it because its esteem far surpasses that of precious stones. Her husband' s heart is in her trust and will not lack profit. She gives him good and not bad every day of his life. He seeks wool and linen and willfully works with his hands.
It' s like a merchant ship Bring your bread from afar, get up still at night and give food to your family and ration to your maids. Consider the inheritance and the buying and planting of the fruit of his hands. He girds his loins with strength and strives for his arms. You see your business is going well, your lamp doesn' t go out at night. Apply your hand to the use and your hands to the wheel, extend your
hand to the poor and extend your hands to the needy. He has no fear of snow for his family, because his whole family is dressed in double clothes. She makes tapestries of linen, fine and purple. It' s his dress. Her husband is known at the gates when he sits with the elders of the earth, makes cloths and sells and gives ribbons to the merchant strength and honor are his garment and coming opens his mouth with wisdom and the law of mercy is in his tongue. Consider the ways of your house and
do not eat the bread for nothing. Her children get up and call her blessed and her husband also washes her. Many women did good but you overcome all deceitful is grace and go to beauty. The woman who fears Jehovah will be praised, give her the fruit of her hands and wash her at the gates. Their facts