אִשָּׁה

No women as beautiful as Job’s daughters could be found in all the land, and their father granted them an inheritance among their brothers.

Like a slug that dissolves in its slime, like a woman’s stillborn child, may they never see the sun.

May his children be fatherless and his wife a widow.

Your wife will be like a fruitful vine flourishing within your house, your sons like olive shoots sitting around your table.

It will rescue you from the forbidden woman, from the stranger with seductive words

May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth:

…to keep you from the evil woman, from the smooth tongue of the adulteress.

For the levy of the prostitute is poverty, and the adulteress preys upon your very life.

So is he who sleeps with another man’s wife; no one who touches her will go unpunished.

He who commits adultery lacks judgment; whoever does so destroys himself.

…that they may keep you from the adulteress, from the stranger with seductive words.

Then a woman came out to meet him, with the attire of a harlot and cunning of heart.

The woman named Folly is loud; she is naive and knows nothing.

A gracious woman attains honor, but ruthless men gain only wealth.

Like a gold ring in a pig’s snout is a beautiful woman who lacks discretion.

A wife of noble character is her husband’s crown, but she who causes shame is like decay in his bones.

Every wise woman builds her house, but a foolish one tears it down with her own hands.

He who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favor from the LORD.

A foolish son is his father’s ruin, and a quarrelsome wife is like a constant dripping.

Houses and wealth are inherited from fathers, but a prudent wife is from the LORD.

Better to live on a corner of the roof than to share a house with a quarrelsome wife.

Better to live in the desert than with a contentious and ill-tempered wife.

Better to live on a corner of the roof than to share a house with a quarrelsome wife.

A constant dripping on a rainy day and a contentious woman are alike—

This is the way of an adulteress: She eats and wipes her mouth and says, ‘I have done nothing wrong.’

Do not spend your strength on women or your vigor on those who ruin kings.

A wife of noble character, who can find? She is far more precious than rubies.

Charm is deceptive and beauty is fleeting, but a woman who fears the LORD is to be praised.

And I find more bitter than death the woman who is a snare, whose heart is a net, and whose hands are chains. The man who pleases God escapes her, but the sinner is ensnared.

While my soul was still searching but not finding, among a thousand I have found one upright man, but among all these I have not found one such woman.

Enjoy life with your beloved wife all the days of the fleeting life that God has given you under the sun—all your fleeting days. For this is your portion in life and in your labor under the sun.

If you do not know, O fairest of women, follow the tracks of the flock, and graze your young goats near the tents of the shepherds.

How is your beloved better than others, O most beautiful among women? How is your beloved better than another, that you charge us so?

Where has your beloved gone, O most beautiful among women? Which way has he turned? We will seek him with you.

Youths oppress My people, and women rule over them. O My people, your guides mislead you; they turn you from your paths.

In that day seven women will take hold of one man and say, “We will eat our own bread and provide our own clothes. Just let us be called by your name. Take away our disgrace!”

Their infants will be dashed to pieces before their eyes, their houses will be looted, and their wives will be ravished.

In that day the Egyptians will be like women. They will tremble with fear beneath the uplifted hand of the LORD of Hosts, when He brandishes it against them.

When its limbs are dry, they are broken off. Women come and use them for kindling; for this is a people without understanding. Therefore their Maker has no compassion on them, and their Creator shows them no favor.

Stand up, you complacent women; listen to me. Give ear to my word, you overconfident daughters.

There the owl will make her nest; she will lay and hatch her eggs and gather her brood under her shadow. Even there the birds of prey will gather, each with its mate.

Search and read the scroll of the LORD: Not one of these will go missing, not one will lack her mate, because He has ordered it by His mouth, and He will gather them by His Spirit.

Woe to him who says to his father, ‘What have you begotten?’ or to his mother, ‘What have you brought forth?’”

“Can a woman forget her nursing child, or lack compassion for the son of her womb? Even if she could forget, I will not forget you!

For the LORD has called you back, like a wife deserted and wounded in spirit, like the rejected wife of one’s youth,” says your God.

“If a man divorces his wife and she leaves him to marry another, can he ever return to her? Would not such a land be completely defiled? But you have played the harlot with many lovers—and you would return to Me?” declares the LORD.

Therefore the showers have been withheld, and no spring rains have fallen. Yet you have the brazen look of a prostitute; you refuse to be ashamed.

But as a woman may betray her husband, so you have betrayed Me, O house of Israel,” declares the LORD.