The Woman Who Fears the Lord

Proverbs 31 has long been treated as the ultimate characteristics of a excellent, valent women. A deeper look reveals it to be the capstone of the wisdom in the book -- the embodiment of wisdom itself reflected in previous chapters. Too, the chapter's chiastic and poetic structure makes the husband the intended focus and beneficiary of an intimate relationship with wisdom. Christ is the embodiment of wisdom (see John chapter 1). He and we mutually benefit from relationship attained by position and union at salvation.