"That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth; that our daughters may be as corner stones, polished after the similitude of a palace:"
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And in all the land were no women found so fair as the daughters of Job: and their father gave them inheritance among their brethren.
The LORD shall increase you more and more, you and your children.
As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth.
Who can find a virtuous woman? for her price is far above rubies.
We have a little sister, and she hath no breasts: what shall we do for our sister in the day when she shall be spoken for?
Moreover the LORD saith, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet:
For I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods upon the dry ground: I will pour my spirit upon thy seed, and my blessing upon thine offspring:
The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter!
Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel;
Thy wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house: thy children like olive plants round about thy table.
Our sons are like tall young plants; and our daughters like the shining stones of a king's house;
That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth; our daughters as corner-columns, sculptured after the fashion of a palace:
That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth; that our daughters may be as corner stones, polished after the similitude of a palace:
That our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth; that our daughters may be as corner stones, polished after the similitude of a palace:
Then our sons will be like well-nurtured plants, Our daughters like pillars carved to adorn a palace.
Because our sons `are' as plants, Becoming great in their youth, Our daughters as hewn stones, Polished -- the likeness of a palace,