Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
through an idle housewife, and through a handmaiden that is heir to her mistress.
New American Standard Bible
And a maidservant when she supplants her mistress.
King James Version
For an odious woman when she is married; and an handmaid that is heir to her mistress.
Holman Bible
and a servant girl when she ousts her queen.
International Standard Version
an unloved woman when she finds a husband, and a servant girl who inherits from her mistress.
A Conservative Version
for a hateful woman when she is married, and a handmaid that is heir to her mistress.
American Standard Version
For an odious woman when she is married; And a handmaid that is heir to her mistress.
Amplified
Under an unloved woman when she gets married,
And under a maidservant when she supplants her mistress.
Bible in Basic English
A hated woman when she is married; and a servant-girl who takes the place of her master's wife.
Darby Translation
under an odious woman when she is married, and a handmaid when she is heir to her mistress.
Julia Smith Translation
For a hated woman when she shall be married and a maid when she shall inherit to her mistress.
King James 2000
For an unloved woman when she is married; and a maidservant that is heir to her mistress.
Lexham Expanded Bible
under an unloved woman when she gets married, and a maid when she succeeds her mistress.
Modern King James verseion
for a hateful woman when she is married; and a servant girl that is heir to her mistress.
NET Bible
under an unloved woman who is married, and under a female servant who dispossesses her mistress.
New Heart English Bible
for an unloved woman when she is married; and a handmaid who is heir to her mistress.
The Emphasized Bible
Under a hateful woman, when she is married, and a handmaid when she driveth out her mistress.
Webster
For an odious woman when she is married; and a handmaid that is heir to her mistress.
World English Bible
for an unloved woman when she is married; and a handmaid who is heir to her mistress.
Youngs Literal Translation
For a hated one when she ruleth, And a maid-servant when she succeedeth her mistress.
Interlinear
Ba`al
Shiphchah
References
Hastings
Morish
Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 30:23
Verse Info
Context Readings
Four Things That Are Intolerable
22 through a servant that beareth rule, through a fool that hath great riches, 23 through an idle housewife, and through a handmaiden that is heir to her mistress. 24 There be four things in the earth, the which are very little: but in wisdom they exceed the wise.
Cross References
Proverbs 19:13
An indiscreet son is the heaviness of his father; and a brawling wife is like the top of a house, wherethrough it is ever dropping.
Proverbs 21:9
It is better to dwell in a corner under the housetop; than with a brawling woman in a wide house.
Proverbs 21:19
It is better to dwell in a wilderness, than with a chiding and an angry woman.
Proverbs 27:15
A brawling woman and the roof of the house dropping in a rainy day, may well be compared together.
Proverbs 29:21
He that delicately bringeth up his servant from a child, shall make him his master at length.