Favour is deceitful, and beauty [is] vain
A well favoured look, a graceful countenance, symmetry and
proportion of parts, natural or artificial beauty, are vain and
deceitful; oftentimes under them lies an ill natured, deformed,
and depraved mind; nor is the pleasure and satisfaction enjoyed
as is promised along with these; and particularly how do they
fade F5 and consume away by a fit of
illness, and through old age, and at last by death? And so vain
and deceitful are the favour and beauty, the artificial
paintings, of Jezebel, that whore of Rome; all her meretricious
deckings, dressings, and ornaments; her gaudy pomp and show in
her worship, and the places of it; see ( Revelation
17:4 ) . Jarchi interprets this of the grandeur and glory of
the kings of the nations; [but] a woman [that] feareth the
Lord, she shall be praised;
any single individual, man or woman, that fears the Lord; or a
collective body of them, a society consisting of such persons, as
the true church of Christ does; who have the grace of fear in
their hearts, which is the beginning of wisdom, and includes the
whole of religious worship, internal and external, private and
public: such are taken notice of and highly valued by the Lord;
his eye is upon them; his hand communicates to them much grace;
and many benefits are bestowed upon them here, and great honour
is conferred upon them, and great goodness is laid up for them.