Matthew Poole and continuators on Proverbs 31:25

25 Strength and honour are her cloathing , and she shall rejoice in time to come .

Not strength of Body, which is no ornament of that sex, save only as she preserves her health and strength by Sobriety and Exercise, which other Women waste by Intemperance and Idleness, but strength of Mind, Magnanimity, Courage, Resolution, Activity.

Either 1. Her prudent, and pious, and amiable behaviour, in which true Honour principally consists. Or 2. That good Name and honourable Esteem which she hath gained amongst all that know her by her virtuous disposition and carriage.

These, and not her rich Garments mentioned before, are her great ornament and glory.

The sense is, either 1. In her old Age she reaps the comfort and benefit of her youthful Labours. Or rather 2. She lives in constant tranquillity of mind, and a confident and chearful expectation of all future events, how calamitous soever; partly because she hath laid in provisions for a rainy day, and chiefly, because she hath the comfortable remembrance of a wellspent Life, and which follows thereupon, a just confidence in Gods gracious Providence and promises made to such persons.

Marginal references: Heb. in the latter day. Gr. in the last days. 2 Tim. 3. 1.