Proverbs 10:22
The blessing of the Lord gives wealth: hard work makes it no greater.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
The blessing of the LORD, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it.
In Context
21The lips of the upright man give food to men, but the foolish come to death for need of sense.
23It is sport to the foolish man to do evil, but the man of good sense takes delight in wisdom.
Cross References
Genesis 12:2And I will make of you a great nation, blessing you and making your name great; and you will be a blessing:
Genesis 14:23That I will not take so much as a thread or the cord of a shoe of yours; so that you may not say, I have given wealth to Abram:
Genesis 26:12Now Isaac, planting seed in that land, got in the same year fruit a hundred times as much, for the blessing of the Lord was on him.
Joshua 6:18And as for you, keep yourselves from the cursed thing, for fear that you may get a desire for it and take some of it for yourselves, and so be the cause of a curse and great trouble on the tents of Israel.
1 Samuel 2:7The Lord gives wealth and takes a man's goods from him: crushing men down and again lifting them up;
2 Kings 5:26And he said to him, Did not my heart go with you, when the man got down from his carriage and went back to you? Is this a time for getting money, and clothing, and olive-gardens and vine-gardens, and sheep and oxen, and men-servants and women-servants?
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 10:21-22
20 The tongue of the just is as choice silver: the heart of the wicked is little worth. 21 The lips of the righteous feed many: but fools die for want of wisdom. We are here taught how to value men, not by their wealth and preferment in the world, but by their virtue. I. Good men are good for something. Though they may be poor and low in the world, and may not have power and riches to do good with, yet, as long as they have a mouth to speak, that will make them valuable and useful, and upon that account we must… Read the whole commentary →