Proverbs 31:17
Good News Translation
She is a hard worker, strong and industrious.

New Revised Standard Version
She girds herself with strength, and makes her arms strong.

Contemporary English Version
and she always works hard.

New American Bible
She girds herself with strength; she exerts her arms with vigor.

Douay-Rheims Bible
She hath girded her loins with strength, and hath strengthened her arm.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

She hath girded her loins with strength, and hath strengthened her arm.

girdeth

1 Kings 18:46 And the hand of the Lord was upon Elias, and he girded up his loins, and ran before Achab, till he came to Jezrahel.

2 Kings 4:29 Then he said to Giezi: Gird up thy loins, and take my staff in thy hand, and go. If any man meet thee, salute him not: and if any man salute thee, answer him not: and lay my staff upon the face of the child.

Job 38:3 Gird up thy loins like a man: I will ask thee, and answer thou me.

Luke 12:35 Let your loins be girt and lamps burning in your hands.

Ephesians 6:10,14 Finally, brethren, be strengthened in the Lord and in the might of his power. . . .

1 Peter 1:13 Wherefore, having the loins of your mind girt up, being sober, trust perfectly in the grace which is offered you in the revelation of Jesus Christ.

strengtheneth

Genesis 49:24 His bow rested upon the strong, and the bands of his arms and his hands were loosed, by the hands of the mighty one of Jacob: thence he came forth a pastor, the stone of Israel.

Isaiah 44:12 The smith hath wrought with his file, with coals, and with hammers he hath formed it, and hath wrought with the strength of his arm: he shall hunger and faint, he shall drink no water, and shall be weary.

Hosea 7:15 And I have chastised them, and strengthened their arms: and they have imagined evil against me.

Context
The Virtues of a Noble Woman
16She hath considered a field, and bought it: with the fruit of her hands she hath planted a vineyard. 17She hath girded her loins with strength, and hath strengthened her arm.18She hath tasted, and seen that her traffic is good: her lamp shall not be put out in the night.…
Cross References
1 Kings 18:46
And the hand of the Lord was upon Elias, and he girded up his loins, and ran before Achab, till he came to Jezrahel.

2 Kings 4:29
Then he said to Giezi: Gird up thy loins, and take my staff in thy hand, and go. If any man meet thee, salute him not: and if any man salute thee, answer him not: and lay my staff upon the face of the child.

Job 38:3
Gird up thy loins like a man: I will ask thee, and answer thou me.

Proverbs 31:16
She hath considered a field, and bought it: with the fruit of her hands she hath planted a vineyard.

Proverbs 31:18
She hath tasted, and seen that her traffic is good: her lamp shall not be put out in the night.

Proverbs 31:16
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