Proverbs 30:23
“For an odious woman when shee is married, and an handmayd that is heire to her mistresse.”
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Proverbs 30:23 Context
21For three things the earth is disquieted, and for foure which it cannot beare: 22For a seruant when he reigneth, and a foole when hee is filled with meate: 23For an odious woman when shee is married, and an handmayd that is heire to her mistresse. 24There be foure things which are little vpon the earth; but they are exceeding wise: 25The Ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meate in the summer.
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For an odious [woman] when she is married; and an handmaid that is heir to her mistress.
- King James Version
Under an unloved woman when she gets a husband, And a maidservant when she supplants her mistress.
- New American Standard Version (1995)