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31 Sayings that Lemuel king of Massa learned from his mother.
2 Son of mine, heed what I say
listen, O son of my prayers, and obey.
3Waste not your strength on women,
your love on these destroyers of a king.
4It is not for kings to be quaffing wine,
nor for princes to be swilling liquor;
5lest in their cups they forget their law
and misjudge a case of misery.
6Give liquor to a perishing soul,
give him wine in his bitter plight,
7that so he may forget his poverty,
and think no more about his misery.
8Do justice to a widow,
and let orphans have their rights;
9decide your cases fairly,
champion the weak and wretched.
10A rare find is an able wife--
she is worth far more than rubies!
11Her husband may depend on her,
and never lose by that;
12she brings him profit and no loss,
from first to last.
13She looks out wool and flax,
and works it up with a will.
14She is like merchant ships,
fetching food-stuffs from afar.
15She rises before dawn,
to feed her household
handing her maids their rations.
16She purchases land prudently;
with her earnings she plants a vineyard.
18She finds that industry is profitable;
the lamp burns all night in her house.
17She girds herself to work,
and plies her arms with vigour;
19she sets her hand to the distaff
her fingers hold the spindle.
21She fears not snow for her household;
for they all wear scarlet wool.
22She has mantles made for herself,
she is robed in linen and purple.
20To poor folk she is generous
and lends a hand to the forlorn.
23Her husband is a man of note
he sits with the sheikhs in council.
24She makes linen yarn and sells it;
she supplies girdles to the traders.
25Strong and secure is her position;
she can afford to laugh, looking ahead.
26She talks shrewd sense,
and offers kindly counsel.
27She keeps an eye upon her household;
she never eats the bread of idleness.
28Her sons congratulate her,
and thus her husband praises her:
29“Many a woman does nobly,
but you far outdo them all!”
30Charms may wane and beauty wither,
keep your praise for a wife with brains:
31give her due credit for her deeds
praise her in public for her services.
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