Proverbs 8:18 KJV — MannaFest

Proverbs 8:18

Riches and honour are with me; yea, durable riches and righteousness.

KJV

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ASV

Riches and honor are with me; Yea, durable wealth and righteousness.

WEB

With me are riches and honor, enduring wealth and righteousness.

YLT

Wealth and honour are with me, Lasting substance and righteousness.

DBT

Riches and honour are with me; durable wealth and righteousness.

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Proverbs — Gnomic wisdom — sayings, instructions, and the binary of wisdom vs. folly. Fear of the LORD as the integrative theme; the virtuous woman of Prov 31 as the book's closing portrait of wisdom embodied.

Author: Solomon principally (1:1; chs 10–22:16 and 25–29 explicitly); Agur (ch 30); Lemuel's mother (ch 31:1–9); editorial compilation by Hezekiah's men (25:1).
Date: Solomon's reign c. 970–930 BC; Hezekiah's editorial layer c. 715–687 BC.

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Psalms 35:27
Let them shout for joy, and be glad, that favour my righteous cause: yea, let them say continually, Let the Lord be magnified, which hath pleasure in the prosperity of his servant.
1 Timothy 6:6
But godliness with contentment is great gain.
Proverbs 3:16
Length of days is in her right hand; and in her left hand riches and honour.
Proverbs 2:4
If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as for hid treasures;
2 Corinthians 6:14
Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?

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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,

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

durable riches . . . righteousness--Such are the "riches," enduring sources of happiness in moral possessions (compare Pr 3:16).

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

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