“A good wife is the crown of her husband.
But she who brings shame is
Like rottenness in his bones.”
The woman is defined in her relationship to her husband. Being a good wife meant that you were the crown of your husband. Generally women were compared to their husbands for value. The opposite is also true. If she brought shame to herself, it also brought shame to her husband, since he would endure the rottenness of the bad deed in his bones.
Eugene Finnegan Bible Project 