Proverbs 31 and Women Working Outside the Home
Some Douglas Wilson quotes:
If a woman is competent, and she should be, in due time her industry will take her outside the home (Pr. 31:10-31). The Bible does not teach that the woman’s place is in the home; it requires that the home be her priority, but she is not at all limited to the home.
(From Reforming Marriage by Douglas Wilson, c. 1995. page 40. Used by permission of Canon Press, Moscow, Idaho)
Consider her work. This passage denies that a woman’s place is in the home. It affirms that her priority is the home. So what does she do? What is she like? Her husband delegates responsibility to her (31:11) and is not foolish in doing so (31:12); she is a weaver (31:13); she shops for food effectively over long distances (31:14); she cooks and provides food (31:15); she buys real estate (31:16); she starts a farm with her accumulated capital (31:16); she works hard and manufactures quality merchandise (31:17-19); she is involved in philanthropic work to the poor (31:20); she thinks ahead and clothes her family well (31:21); she make things for herself and dresses herself well (31:22); she poses no threat to her husband; she does not overshadow him (31:23); she is a fabric and clothing wholesaler (31:24); she is a wise woman, and a teacher (31:26); she manages her household (31:27), to the praise of her husband and children (31:28-29); and she fears God, placing no trust in fleeting vanity (31:30-31).
(From Future Men by Douglas Wilson, c. 2001. page 150-151. Used by permission of Canon Press, Moscow, Idaho)
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