Bible Verses About Women

With ornamental coverings I decked my couch, Carved works--cotton of Egypt.

I sprinkled my bed--myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.

Come, we are filled with loves till the morning, We delight ourselves in loves.

For the man is not in his house, He hath gone on a long journey.

A bag of money he hath taken in his hand, At the day of the new moon he cometh to his house.'

She turneth him aside with the abundance of her speech, With the flattery of her lips she forceth him.

He is going after her straightway, As an ox unto the slaughter he cometh, And as a fetter unto the chastisement of a fool,

Till an arrow doth split his liver, As a bird hath hastened unto a snare, And hath not known that it is for its life.

And now, ye sons, hearken to me, And give attention to sayings of my mouth.

Let not thy heart turn unto her ways, Do not wander in her paths,

For many are the wounded she caused to fall, And mighty are all her slain ones.

The ways of Sheol--her house, Going down unto inner chambers of death!

A gracious woman retaineth honour, And terrible men retain riches.

A ring of gold in the nose of a sow--A fair woman and stubborn of behaviour.

A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband, And as rottenness in his bones is one causing shame.

Every wise woman hath builded her house, And the foolish with her hands breaketh it down.

Whoso hath found a wife hath found good, And bringeth out good-will from Jehovah.

A calamity to his father is a foolish son, And the contentions of a wife are a continual dropping.

House and wealth are the inheritance of fathers, And from Jehovah is an understanding wife.

Better to sit on a corner of the roof, Than with a woman of contentions and a house of company.

Better to dwell in a wilderness land, Than with a woman of contentions and anger.

Better to sit on a corner of a roof, Than with a woman of contentions, and a house of company.

A continual dropping in a day of rain, And a woman of contentions are alike,

Whoso is hiding her hath hidden the wind, And the ointment of his right hand calleth out.

For three things hath earth been troubled, And for four--it is not able to bear: