Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Proverbs 30:23
For an odious [woman] when she is married; and a handmaid that is heir to her mistress.
23. odious ] Lit. hated, as in Deu 21:15; Isa 60:15. Her disposition is such as always to secure for her aversion and dislike.
when she is married ] and so has both power and opportunity, which she lacked before, to display her true character, and cause misery. See Pro 21:9; Pro 21:19, Pro 27:15.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
Odious woman – One in whom there is nothing loveable. Marriage, which to most women is the state in which they find scope for their highest qualities, becomes to her only a sphere in which to make herself and others miserable.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
Odious; proud, and perverse, and full of hateful and offensive qualities.
When she is married; for then she displayeth and exerciseth all those ill humours, which before for her own ends she concealed; then she is puffed up, and imperious, and becomes intolerable to her own family, and to her relations and neighbours.
That is heir to her mistress; that possesseth her estate, either by the gift of her mistress, into whose favour she had insinuated herself by her cunning and officious carriage; or rather by the marriage of her master, which great and sudden change transports her beside herself, and makes her insufferably proud, and scornful, and injurious to all that converse with her.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
23. heir . . . mistressthatis, takes her place as a wife (Ge16:4).
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
For an odious [woman], when she is married,…. Odious for her person, her ugliness, and the deformity of her body; or rather for the ill qualities of her mind, which, while single, she endeavours to conceal, but, being married, hides them no longer; but becomes imperious, proud, scornful, and malicious, and behaves in an ill natured way to her husband and all about her, to such a degree, that there is no bearing the place where she is;
and an handmaid, that is heir to her mistress; that has got so much into her affections that she leaves all she has to her when she dies, which makes her insufferably proud and vain; or she marries her master after the death of her mistress, and so coming into her place enjoys all she had, but only her wisdom and humility; which being wanting, she behaves in such a manner as to make the whole family uneasy. This might be exemplified in the case of Hagar, the bondmaid of Sarah, a type of those that are under the law of works, and seek the inheritance by it; and who trust in themselves that they are righteous, and despise others, Ge 16:4.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
(23) For an odious woman when she is married.She pays off, with interest, the slights which she had formerly to endure from her married friends.
An handmaid that is heir to her mistress, and who is nervously anxious to preserve her newly-acquired dignity.
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
Pro 30:23 For an odious [woman] when she is married; and an handmaid that is heir to her mistress.
Ver. 23. For an odious woman when she is married. ] Such a one was Peninnah, who vexed good Hannah, “to make her to thunder,” as the original hath it. a Such was Jezebel, Herodias, Messalina, wife to the Emperor Claudias, who was her agent to effect her sinful purposes, and her patient to sustain her lewd conditions. She compelled also other Roman ladies to be as lewd as herself, and those that would not she hated, and banished them from the court. b
And an handmaid that is heir to her mistress.
“ M ”
“Never make thy maid thy mistress.”
Such hens will be apt to crow, such wives to breed disturbance in the family.
a 1Sa 1:6 .
b Dio in Claudio.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
is heirto = has dispossessed, or become heiress to.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
an odious: Pro 19:13, Pro 21:9, Pro 21:19, Pro 27:15
an handmaid: Pro 29:21
Reciprocal: Gen 15:3 – born Gen 16:4 – her mistress
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
30:23 For an odious [woman] when she is married; and an handmaid that is {m} heir to her mistress.
(m) Who is married to her master after the death of her mistress.