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Originally Posted by armourbearer  My humble opinion is that the description was given to a man, and shows what men naturally look for in a woman, especially one that is going to cost a handsome dowry. The description of a never-tiring, ever-glowing, and kind-speaking woman are qualities which men naturally look for. Verse 30 points to the quintessential quality men should seek in a life-partner: "favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised." |
Proverbs 31:1 sets the context:
"The words of King Lemuel. An oracle that
his mother taught him:"
It is written by a man, something which his mother had taught him.