Proverbs 8:18
in Proverbs 8With me are riches and honor, enduring wealth and righteousness.
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ASV
Riches and honor are with me; Yea, durable wealth and righteousness.
KJV
Riches and honour are with me; yea, durable riches and righteousness.
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This verse in Proverbs 8
Commentary
8 notes on this verseRiches and honor are with me - Often the wise, prudent, and discreet man arrives literally to riches and honor; but this is not always the case. But there are other riches of which he never fails; and these seem to be what Solomon has particularly in view, durable riches and righteousness; the treasure deposited by God in earthen vessels.
This site's exposition
those who seek me early shall find me
on Proverbs 8:17-21
“I love those who love me, and those who seek me early shall find me” gives wisdom a covenant shape. Her riches are qualified twice, “enduring wealth and righteousness” and “better than gold,” set against the warning about wealth that “makes wings for itself” (23:5).
This site's exposition
enduring wealth and righteousness
Clarke observes that the wise often gain riches and honor, and sometimes they go without. The wealth that endures is righteousness, which Clarke calls the treasure God places in earthen vessels. Honor comes with it.
The record, by era
The Puritans and the Awakening3 voices
The redeemer is the eternal Word and wisdom, the Logos. He is the Wisdom that speaks to the children of men in the former part of the chapter. All divine revelation passes through his hand, and centres in him; but of him as the personal Wisdom, the second person in the Godhead, in the judgment of many of the ancients, Solomon here speaks,
Riches and honour are with me,....
Religion sometimes helps to make people rich and great in this world, gains them a reputation, and so increases their estates; and the riches which Wisdom gives to her favourites have these two advantages:-- [1.] That they are riches and righteousness, riches honestly got, not by fraud and oppression, but in regular ways, and riches charitably used, for alms are called righteousness.
The Nineteenth Century2 voices
A commentator
Jamieson, Fausset & Brown1802–1910
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)
proposed
durable riches . . . righteousness--Such are the "riches," enduring sources of happiness in moral possessions (compare Pr 3:16).
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A commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
proposed
Durable riches - i. e., Treasure piled up for many years; ancient wealth.
The words behind it
6 Hebrew wordsEvery 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.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| עֹֽשֶׁר־ | ʾosher- | wealth | H6239 → | 37 times |
| וְכָב֥וֹד | vekhavod | and honor | H3519 → | 200 times |
| אִתִּ֑י | ʾiti | [are] with me | H854 → | 929 times |
| ה֥וֹן | hon | wealth | H1952 → | 26 times |
| עָ֝תֵ֗ק | ʾatek | enduring | H6276 → | |
| וּצְדָקָֽה׃ | utzedakah | and righteousness | H6666 → | 157 times |
עֹֽשֶׁר־wealth
ʾosher-H6239 →37 times
וְכָב֥וֹדand honor
vekhavodH3519 →200 times
אִתִּ֑י[are] with me
ʾitiH854 →929 times
ה֥וֹןwealth
honH1952 →26 times
עָ֝תֵ֗קenduring
ʾatekH6276 →
וּצְדָקָֽה׃and righteousness
utzedakahH6666 →157 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach 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
Matthew 6:33But seek first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things will be added unto you.
it leads to
- Luke 12:31
But seek His kingdom, and these things will be added unto you.
- Matthew 5:6
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.
- John 6:27
Do not work for food that perishes, but for food that endures to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. For on Him God the Father has placed His seal of…
- Psalms 34:9–10
Fear the LORD, you His saints, for those who fear Him lack nothing.
- Psalms 84:11–12
For the LORD God is a sun and a shield; the LORD gives grace and glory; He withholds no good thing from those who walk with integrity.
- Luke 12:31
Through
Philippians 4:19And my God will supply all your needs according to His glorious riches in Christ Jesus.
it leads to
- 2 Corinthians 9:8–11
And God is able to make all grace abound to you, so that in all things, at all times, having all that you need, you will abound in every good work.
- Psalms 84:11
For the LORD God is a sun and a shield; the LORD gives grace and glory; He withholds no good thing from those who walk with integrity.
- 1 Peter 5:10
And after you have suffered for a little while, the God of all grace, who has called you to His eternal glory in Christ, will Himself restore you, secure you, strengthen you, and establish…
- 2 Corinthians 9:8–11
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About Proverbs
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Charles Bridges, An Exposition of the Book of Proverbs; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.