Proverbs 31:14
Translations
King James Version (KJV)
She is like the merchants' ships; she brings her food from afar.
American King James Version (AKJV)
She is like the merchants' ships; she brings her food from afar.
American Standard Version (ASV)
She is like the merchant-ships; She bringeth her bread from afar.
Basic English Translation (BBE)
She is like the trading-ships, getting food from far away.
Webster's Revision
She is like the merchant's ships; she bringeth her food from afar.
World English Bible
She is like the merchant ships. She brings her bread from afar.
English Revised Version (ERV)
She is like the merchant-ships; she bringeth her food from afar.
Clarke's Proverbs 31:14 Bible Commentary
She is like the merchants' ships -
3. She acts like merchants. If she buy any thing for her household, she sells sufficient of her own manufactures to pay for it; if she imports, she exports: and she sends articles of her own manufacturing or produce to distant countries; she traffics with the neighboring tribes.
Barnes's Proverbs 31:14 Bible Commentary
The comparison points to the enlarged commerce of the Israelites consequent on their contact with the Phoenicians under David and Solomon; compare Proverbs 31:24.
Wesley's Proverbs 31:14 Bible Commentary
31:14 From afar - By the sale of her home - spun commodities she purchases the choicest goods which come from far countries.