Proverbs 31:11

“The heart of her husband doth safely trust in her, etc.] Christ her Maker is her husband, who has asked her in marriage, and has betrothed her to himself in righteousness; and of whose chaste love, and inviolable attachment to him, he is fully satisfied, as well as of her fidelity in keeping what he commits unto her; he trusts her with his Gospel and ordinances, which she faithfully retains and observes; and with his children born in her, who are nursed up at her side, to whom she gives the breasts of ordinances, bears them on her sides, and dandles them on her knees, as a tender and careful mother does, (<236004>Isaiah 60:4 66:11,12); so that he shall have no need of spoil; he shall never…”

“heart . . . trust in her--He relies on her prudence and skill. no need of spoil--does not lack profit or gain, especially, that obtained by the risk of war.”

“No need of spoil - Better, no lack of gain, lack of honest gain. return to 'Top of Page'”

“No need - He shall have no need to use indirect courses to get wealth. Proverbs 31:13”

“Kg2 4:9, Kg2 4:10, Kg2 4:22, Kg2 4:23; Pe1 3:1-7 Proverbs 31:12”

“The reason for this is now given: 11 ב The heart of her husband doth trust her, And he shall not fail of grain. If we interpret שׁלל, after Ecc 9:8, as subject, then we miss לּו; it will thus be object., and the husband subj. to לא יחסּר: nec lucro carebit, as e.g., Fleischer translates it, with the remark that שׁלל denotes properly the spoil which one takes from an enemy, but then also, like the Arab. ḍanymat, can mean profit and gain of all kinds (cf. Rdiger in Gesenius' Thes.). Thus also in our "kriegen" = to come into possession, the reference to war disappears. Hitzig understands by שׁלל, the continual prosperity of the man on account of his fortunate possession of such a wife; but in…”