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Proverbs 10:22

in Proverbs 10

The blessing of the LORD enriches, and He adds no sorrow to it.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

The blessing of Jehovah, it maketh rich; And he addeth no sorrow therewith.

KJV

The blessing of the Lord, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it.

This verse in Proverbs 10

Commentary

4 notes on this verse

This site's exposition

The tongue of the righteous is choice silver

on Proverbs 10:20-25

The unit weighs the tongue: “The lips of the righteous feed many, but fools die for lack of judgment”. “The blessing of the LORD enriches, and He adds no sorrow to it” answers the wealth sayings of the chapter's opening.

This site's exposition

The blessing of the LORD enriches

Wealth gained by grasping or by fraud comes with cares attached. Adam Clarke says the blessing of the LORD gives simple enjoyment and levies no tax upon the comfort. The verse answers the ill-gotten treasures of verse 2.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

The blessing of the Lord, it maketh rich,....

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

proposed

The blessing of the Lord, it maketh rich - Whatever we receive in the way of providence, has God’s blessing in it, and will do us good. Cares, troubles, and difficulties come with all property not acquired in this way; but God’s blessing gives simple enjoyment, and levies no tax upon the comfort.

The words behind it

8 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • בִּרְכַּ֣ת[the] blessing of

    birkatH1293 →69 times

  • יְ֭הוָהYahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • הִ֣יאit

    hi'H1931 →1879 times

  • תַעֲשִׁ֑ירit makes rich

    taashirH6238 →17 times

  • וְלֹֽא־and not

    velo'-H3808 →5168 times

  • יוֹסִ֖ףhe adds

    yosifH3254 →212 times

  • עֶ֣צֶבsorrow

    ʾetzevH6089 →7 times

  • עִמָּֽהּ׃with it

    ʾimahH5973 →1050 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Genesis 12:2

    I will make you into a great nation, and I will bless you; I will make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.

    it leads to

    • 2 Samuel 7:9

      I have been with you wherever you have gone, and I have cut off all your enemies from before you. Now I will make for you a name like the greatest in the land.

    • Galatians 3:14

      He redeemed us in order that the blessing promised to Abraham would come to the Gentiles in Christ Jesus, so that by faith we might receive the promise of the Spirit.

    • Genesis 18:18

      Abraham will surely become a great and powerful nation, and through him all the nations of the earth will be blessed.

    • Genesis 17:4–6

      “As for Me, this is My covenant with you: You will be the father of many nations.

    • Genesis 28:3–4

      May God Almighty bless you and make you fruitful and multiply you, so that you may become a company of peoples.

  • Through

    Genesis 24:35

    “The LORD has greatly blessed my master, and he has become rich. He has given him sheep and cattle, silver and gold, menservants and maidservants, camels and donkeys.

    it leads to

    • Genesis 24:1

      By now Abraham was old and well along in years, and the LORD had blessed him in every way.

      Reached by 2 separate paths from here.

    • Genesis 13:2

      And Abram had become extremely wealthy in livestock and silver and gold.

  • Through

    Genesis 26:12

    Now Isaac sowed seed in the land, and that very year he reaped a hundredfold. And the LORD blessed him,

    it leads to

    • Mark 4:8

      Still other seed fell on good soil, where it sprouted, grew up, and produced a crop—one bearing thirtyfold, another sixtyfold, and another a hundredfold.”

Where this verse is studied

About Proverbs

The Judgment of Solomon, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.
The Judgment of Solomon, Gustave Doré, 1866. Public domain.

This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Franz Delitzsch, Biblical Commentary on the Proverbs of Solomon; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.