Proverbs 31:14 “She is like the merchant ships, bringing her food from afar.”

Proverbs 31:14

She is like the merchant ships, bringing her food from afar.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

She is like the merchants’ ships; she bringeth her food from afar.

World English Bible

She is like the merchant ships. She brings her bread from afar.

American Standard Version

She is like the merchant-ships; She bringeth her bread from afar.

Geneva Bible 1599

She is like the shippes of marchants: shee bringeth her foode from afarre.

Darby Translation

She is like the merchants' ships: she bringeth her food from afar;

Young's Literal Translation

She hath been as ships of the merchant, From afar she bringeth in her bread.

Bible in Basic English

She is like the trading-ships, getting food from far away.

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Cross references

“She is like the merchants' ships; she bringeth her food from afar.”

1 Kings 9:26–28 Ezekiel 27:3–36 Proverbs 31:24 2 Chronicles 9:10

1 Kings 9:26–28 · BSB

King Solomon also assembled a fleet of ships at Ezion-geber, which is near Eloth in Edom, on the shore of the Red Sea.

Ezekiel 27:3–36 · BSB

Tell Tyre, who dwells at the gateway to the sea, merchant of the peoples on many coasts, that this is what the Lord GOD says: You have said, O Tyre, ‘I am perfect in beauty.’

Proverbs 31:24 · BSB

She makes linen garments and sells them; she delivers sashes to the merchants.

2 Chronicles 9:10 · BSB

(The servants of Hiram and of Solomon who brought gold from Ophir also brought algum wood and precious stones.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

13She selects wool and flax and works with eager hands.

15She rises while it is still night to provide food for her household and portions for her maidservants.

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