Womanhood

Every wise woman builds her house, but a foolish one tears it down with her own hands.

Like a gold ring in a pig’s snout is a beautiful woman who lacks discretion.

He who finds a wife finds a good thing and obtains favor from the LORD.

Houses and wealth are inherited from fathers, but a prudent wife is from the LORD.

To the woman He said: “I will sharply increase your pain in childbirth; in pain you will bring forth children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”

Older women, likewise, are to be reverent in their behavior, not slanderers or addicted to much wine, but teachers of good. …

For this is how the holy women of the past adorned themselves. They put their hope in God and were submissive to their husbands,

The Lord gives the command; a great company of women proclaim it: