One member of the alphabetic poem of praise, Proverbs 31:10–31: a hymn, not a checklist.
Quick answer
The husband's praise, quoted directly: many women have done valiantly, but you surpass them all. It is love's superlative, spoken to one woman, not a ranking system for all women.
Read the whole unit
The book closes with a 22-verse acrostic, one verse for each Hebrew letter, aleph to tav, the way love makes lists, so that when the alphabet runs out you know nothing was left unsaid. The poem stands immediately after a mother's counsel to a king (31:1–9). Whether or not the mother is also the poem's speaker, its placement trains the reader, men included, to recognize and praise wisdom embodied in a woman.
Its subject is an eshet chayil, a woman of strength, capability, and valor. Chayil is a broad Hebrew word for strength, capability, resources, and standing, frequently used of warriors and capable people, and the poem inventories her formidable agency: commerce, agriculture, management, generosity, foresight, teaching, and laughter at the future. Its climax states the governing center: a woman who fears the LORD, she shall be praised (v. 30). Praised, not scored. This is a hymn of honor, not a weekly job description, and every member entry carries that frame, because the checklist misreading is this poem's one great occupational hazard.
What this verse contributes
This verse contributes the poem's frame word coming home. "Have done well" is the Hebrew chayil again, the valor word that opened the poem at v. 10: many daughters have done chayil, he says, and you surpass them all. The poem's key term now sits in a husband's mouth as praise, which is where the acrostic has been carrying it all along. The superlative is love's grammar, not arithmetic; every true praise of one's own sounds like this, and the poem is not ranking womankind but recording how honor talks when it is personal. The husband of v. 11, whose heart safely trusts, is last heard doing what trust matures into: public, specific, superlative praise.
Related: Song of Solomon 6:8–9 · Ruth 3:11
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Go Deeper
If this verse has been used to put weight on you that it was never carrying, ask about it directly.