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The following proverb praises the extent of her housewifely transactions:
14 ה She is like the ships of the merchant -
Bringeth her food from afar.
She is (lxx ἐγένετο) like merchant ships (כָּֽאֳנִיוֹת, indeterminate, and thus to be read kōǒnı̂joth), i.e., she has the art of such ships as sail away and bring wares from a distance, are equipped, sent out, and managed by an enterprising spirit; so the prudent, calculating look of the brave wife, directed towards the care and the advancement of her house, goes out beyond the nearest circle; she descries also distant opportunities of advantageous purchase and profitable exchange, and brings in from a distance what is necessary for the supply of her house, or, mediately, what yields this supply (מִמֶּרְחָק, Cod. Jaman. ממרחַק, cf. under Isa 10:6), for she finds that source of gain she has espied.