Part 13 of Gleaning Wisdom from the Book of Proverbs – “The wife of noble character is her husband’s crown, but a disgraceful wife is like decay in his bones” (Prov. 12:4). Proverbs presents both sides of this truth, but in chapter 31 the book emphasizes the first, offering us a picture of Wisdom embodied in real life. It is an ideal that has rele­vance to us all.