Matthew Poole and continuators on Proverbs 31:30

30 Favour is deceitful , and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the LORD , she shall be praised.

Comeliness, or, as the next clause explains it Beauty, which commonly gives Women favour or acceptation with those who behold them. These are the words either 1. Of her Husband continuing to praise her. Or 2. Of Bathsheba, giving the summ of what she had said in few words.

Partly because it gives a false representation of the person, being oft times a cover to a most deformed soul, and to many evil and hateful qualities; partly because it doth not give a man that content and satisfaction, which at first view he promised to himself from it; and partly because it is soon lost, not only by death, but by many Diseases and contingencies.

Which character is here mentioned either as the Crown of all her perfections. Or 2. As a key to understand the foregoing passage of that Wisdom, and Fidelity, and Diligence, which proceeded from, or is accompanied with the fear of God.