Parallel Verses

International Standard Version

an unloved woman when she finds a husband, and a servant girl who inherits from her mistress.

New American Standard Bible

Under an unloved woman when she gets a husband,
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

an unloved woman when she marries,
and a servant girl when she ousts her queen.

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.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

through an idle housewife, and through a handmaiden 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

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
For an odious
שׂנא 
Sane' 
Usage: 145

בּעל 
Ba`al 
Usage: 15

that is heir
ירשׁ ירשׁ 
Yarash 
Usage: 231

References

Context Readings

Four Things That Are Intolerable

22 Under a slave when he becomes a king, a fool when he is overfed, 23 an unloved woman when she finds a husband, and a servant girl who inherits from her mistress. 24 Four things on earth are small, but they are very, very wise:

Cross References

Proverbs 19:13

A father's ruin is a foolish son, and a wife's quarreling is like dripping water that never stops.

Proverbs 21:9

It's better to live in a corner on the roof than to share a house with a contentious woman.

Proverbs 21:19

It's better to live in the wilderness than to live with a contentious and irritable woman.

Proverbs 27:15

A continual dripping on a rainy day and a contentious wife are alike.

Proverbs 29:21

If you pamper a servant from his childhood, later on he'll become ungrateful.

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