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Proverbs 31:12-14
New American Bible (Revised Edition)

12 She brings him profit, not loss,[a]
    all the days of her life.
13 She seeks out wool and flax
    and weaves with skillful hands.
14 Like a merchant fleet,[b]
    she secures her provisions from afar.

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Footnotes

  1. 31:12 Profit, not loss: a commercial metaphor.
  2. 31:14 Like a merchant fleet: she has her eye on the far horizon, like the ship of a merchant ready to bring supplies into her larder. It is the only simile (“like”) in the poem.
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