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Prov. 31:14 KJV (With Strong’s)

She is like the merchants’ ships; she bringeth her food from afar.

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Prov. 31:24• ²⁴She maketh body linen and selleth it,{HR}And delivereth girdles unto the merchant. (Prov. 31:24)

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1 Kings 9:26‑28• ²⁶And king Solomon made a fleet of ships in Ezion-Geber, which is beside Eloth, on the shore of the Red Sea, in the land of Edom.
²⁷And Hiram sent in the fleet his servants, shipmen that had knowledge of the sea, with the servants of Solomon;
²⁸and they went to Ophir, and fetched thence gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought it to king Solomon. (1 Kings 9:26‑28)

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2 Chron. 9:10• ¹⁰(And the servants also of Huram, and the servants of Solomon, who brought gold from Ophir, brought sandal-wood and precious stones. (2 Chron. 9:10)

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Ezek. 27:3‑36• ³and say unto Tyrus, Ο thou that art situate at the entry of the sea, which art a merchant of the people for many isles, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah; Ο Tyrus, thou hast said, I am of perfect beauty.
⁴Thy borders are in the heart of the seas, thy builders have perfected thy beauty.
⁵They have made all thy ship boards of fir trees of Senir; they have taken cedars from Lebanon to make masts for thee.
⁶Of the oaks of Bashan have they made thine oars; they made thy benches of ivory, inlaid in box-wood, out of the isles of Chittim.
⁷embroidered fine linen from Egypt for sails, to serve thee for a banner; blue and purple covering from the isles or coasts of Elishah was thine awning.
⁸The inhabitants of Zidon and Arvad were thy mariners: thy wise men, Ο Tyrus, that were in thee, were thy pilots.
⁹The ancients of Gebal and the wise men thereof were in thee thy caulkers: all the ships of the sea with their mariners were in thee to occupy thy merchandise.
¹⁰They of Persia and of Lud and of Phut were in thine army, thy men of war: they hanged the shield and helmet in thee; they set forth thy comeliness.
¹¹The men of Arvad with thine army were upon thy walls round about, and the Gammadim were in thy towers: they hanged their shields upon thy walls round about; they have made thy beauty perfect.
¹²Tarshish was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of all kind of riches; with silver, iron, tin, and lead, they traded in thy fairs.
¹³Javan, Tubal, and Meshech, they were thy merchants: they traded the persons of men and vessels of brass in thy market.
¹⁴They of the house of Togarmah traded in thy fairs with horses and horsemen and mules.
¹⁵The men of Dedan were thy merchants; many isles were the merchandise of thine hand: they brought thee for a present, horns of ivory and ebony.
¹⁶Syria dealt with thee for the multitude of thy handiworks: they traded in thy markets with carbuncles, purple, and broidered work, and fine linen, and corals, and rubies.
¹⁷Judah and the land of Israel were thy merchants, they traded in the market wheat of Minnith and Pannag, and honey and oil and balm.
¹⁸Damascus dealt with thee because of the multitude of thy handiworks, by reason of the abundance of all substance, with wine of Helbon, and white wool.
¹⁹Dedan and Javan of Uzal traded in thy markets: wrought iron, cassia, and calamus were in thy traffic.
²⁰Dedan was thy trafficker in precious riding-cloths.
²¹Arabia and all the princes of Kedar were the merchants of thy hand: in lambs, and rams, and goats, in these did they trade with thee.
²²The merchants of Sheba and Raamah were thy traffickers: they furnished thy markets with all the choice spices, and with all precious stones and gold.
²³Haran, and Canneh, and Eden, the merchants of Sheba, Asshur, and Chilmad traded with thee:
²⁴these traded with thee in sumptuous clothes, in wrappings of blue and broidered work, and in chests full of variegated stuffs, bound with cords and made of cedar-wood, amongst thy merchandise.
²⁵The ships of Tarshish did sing of thee in thy market and thou wast replenished, and highly honoured, in the heart of the seas.
²⁶Thy rowers brought thee into great waters; the east wind broke thee in the heart of the seas.
²⁷Thy riches and thy fairs, thy merchandise, thy mariners, and thy pilots, thy caulkers, and the occupiers of thy merchandise, and all thy men of war that are in thee, even with all thy company which is in the midst of thee, shall fall in the heart of the seas in the day of thy fall.
²⁸The suburbs shall shake at the sound of the cry of thy pilots.
²⁹And all that handle the oar, the mariners, and all the pilots of the sea, shall come down from their ships, they shall stand upon the land:
³⁰and shall cause their voice to be heard against thee, and shall cry bitterly, and shall cast up dust upon their heads, they shall wallow themselves in the ashes;
³¹and they shall make themselves utterly bald for thee, and gird them with sackcloth, and they shall weep for thee with bitterness of heart and bitter wailing.
³²And in their wailing they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and lament over thee, saying, What city is like Tyrus, like the destroyed in the heart of the sea?
³³When thy wares went forth out of the seas, thou filledst many people; thou didst enrich the kings of the earth, with the multitude of thy riches and of thy merchandise.
³⁴In the time when thou shalt be broken by the seas in the midst of the waters, thy merchandise and all thy company in the midst of thee shall fall.
³⁵All the inhabitants of the isles shall be astonished at thee, and their kings shall be sore afraid, they shall be troubled in their countenance.
³⁶The merchants among the people shall hiss at thee; thou shalt be a terror, and never shall be anymore. (Ezek. 27:3‑36)

• (He) Dainty delicacies or coarse fare when provided by her hands become sweet indeed to the objects of her solicitude. She is not content with slipshod service but is constantly bringing forth “things new and old,” as the ships of the merchants bring to our doors the treasures of distant lands. (“Proverbs Thirty-One” by H.A. Ironside)

J. N. Darby Translation

She is like the merchants’ ships: she bringeth her food from afar;

W. Kelly Translation

She is like the merchants’ ships:{HR}She bringeth her food from afar;

WK Verse Note

(Note: Words in italics have been inserted from the J. N. Darby translation where the W. Kelly translation doesn’t exist.)