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Proverbs 31:14
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
Proverbs 31:14
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
14 Like a merchant fleet,[a]
she secures her provisions from afar.
Footnotes
- 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.
New American Bible (Revised Edition) (NABRE)
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