Psalms 112:5 KJV — MannaFest

Psalms 112:5

A good man sheweth favour, and lendeth: he will guide his affairs with discretion.

KJV

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WEB

It is well with the man who is generous and lends freely, whose affairs are guided by justice.

DBT

It is well with the man that is gracious and lendeth; he will sustain his cause in judgment.

ASV

Well is it with the man that dealeth graciously and lendeth; He shall maintain his cause in judgment.

YLT

Good is the man--gracious and lending, He sustaineth his matters in judgment.

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Psalms — The canon's longest book — 150 Psalms edited into five doxology-bookended books, composed across a millennium, attributed to David, Asaph, Korah's sons, Moses, Solomon, Heman, Ethan, and anonymous voices. A ''Torah of David''; the Bible's longest continuous liturgical-devotional corpus.

Author: David principally (73 Psalms + 2 NT-cited); Asaph, Sons of Korah, Solomon, Moses, Heman, Ethan; ~50 anonymous.
Date: Composed c. 1400 BC (Mosaic Ps 90) through the post-exilic period (Ps 126 ''when the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion''). Roughly a millennium of composition; editorial compilation likely into the Persian period.

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Philippians 4:19
But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.
Luke 6:35
But love ye your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing again; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be the children of the Highest: for he is kind unto the unthankful and to the evil.
Acts 20:35
I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.
Matthew 5:42
Give to him that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away.
Psalms 37:21
The wicked borroweth, and payeth not again: but the righteous sheweth mercy, and giveth.

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): He shows favour and lends. Sometimes there is as much charity in lending as in giving, as it obliges the borrower both to industry and honesty. He is gracious and lends ( Ps. xxxvii.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

Generosity, sound judgment in business, and confidence in God, form a character which preserves from fear of evil and ensures success against enemies. While a man thus truly pious is liberal, he increases in substance.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

Those who most use their wisdom see most of their need of it, and ask it of God, who has promised to give it liberally, Jam. i. He will guide his words with judgment (so it is in the original); and there is nothing in which we have more occasion for wisdom than in the government of the tongue; blessed is he to whom God gives that wisdom. The Blessedness of the Righteous;

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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