Proverbs 3:16
Long life is in her right hand; in her left hand are riches and honor.
BSB
ASV
Length of days is in her right hand; In her left hand are riches and honor.
KJV
Length of days is in her right hand; and in her left hand riches and honour.
Someone may object: If the just man has no left hand, how is Wisdom written to have both a right hand and a left? A diligent reader will very easily judge how great is the difference between the right hand of Wisdom and the left, when he has noticed what things are said to be in her right and what in her left. For it is said: "Length of eternity and years of life are in her right hand, but in her left hand riches and glory."
Length of days is in her right hand - A wicked man shortens his days by excesses; a righteous man prolongs his by temperance. In her left hand riches and honor - That is, her hands are full of the choicest benefits. There is nothing to be understood here by the right hand in preference to the left.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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Proverbs 22:4The rewards of humility and the fear of the LORD are wealth and honor and life.
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But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be added unto you.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Humble yourselves before the Lord, and He will exalt you.
Fear the LORD, you His saints, for those who fear Him lack nothing.
He who pursues righteousness and loving devotion finds life, righteousness, and honor.
Hallelujah! Blessed is the man who fears the LORD, who greatly delights in His commandments.
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Proverbs 3:2for they will add length to your days, years and peace to your life.
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Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.
Listen, my son, and receive my words, and the years of your life will be many.
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1 Kings 3:13Moreover, I will give you what you did not request—both riches and honor—so that during all your days no man in any kingdom will be your equal.
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Now to Him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to His power that is at work within us,
