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An excellent wife is hard to find and if so, she is ″far more precious than jewels″<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs31.10&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>She ″does not eat the bread of idleness″. On the contrary she ″rises while it is yet night″, ″seeks wool and flax and works with willing hands″, ″provides food for her household and portions for her maidens″. ″She makes linen garments and sells them; she delivers sashes to the merchant″, ″considers a field and buys it; with the fruit of her hands she plants a vineyard″. ″She opens her hand to the poor and reaches out her hands to the needy″. ″Strength and dignity are her clothing, and she laughs at the time to come″. ″She opens her mouth with wisdom, and the teaching of kindness is on her tongue.″<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs31.10-29&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>
Young widows ″learn to be idlers, going about from house to house, and not only idlers, but also gossips and busybodies, saying what they should not″ if they don’t do what they should do, namely marry, have [[children]] and be housewives in their homes.<ref>http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1Timothy5.11-15&version=ESV;NIVUK;ASV</ref>
==The lazy man leaves God's gifts unused==