Proverbs 30:23

For an odious woman, when she is married,.... Odious for her person, her ugliness, and the deformity of her body; or rather for the ill qualities of her mind, which, while single, she endeavours to…

Odious woman - One in whom there is nothing loveable. Marriage, which to most women is the state in which they find scope for their highest qualities, becomes to her only a sphere in which to make…

Here is, I. An account of four things that are unsearchable, too wonderful to be fully known. And here,

1. The first three are natural things, and are only designed as comparisons for the illustration…

odious Lit. hated, as in Deu 21:15; Isa 60:15. Her disposition is such as always to secure for her aversion and dislike.

when she is married and so has both power and opportunity, which she lacked…