Proverbs 10:22
The Birkat Hashem, it maketh wealthy, 1 and He addeth no sorrow with it. 1
Orthodox Jewish Bible
In The King James Version
The blessing of the LORD, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it.
In Context
Cross References
Genesis 12:2So that I will make of thee a goy gadol (great nation), so that I will bless thee, and make thy shem great; and so thou shalt be a brocha (blessing);
Genesis 14:23That I will not take from a thread even to the thong of a sandal, and that I will not take any thing that is thine, lest thou shouldest say, I have made Avram rich;
Genesis 26:12Then Yitzchak sowed in that land, and reaped in the same year a hundredfold; and Hashem blessed him.
Joshua 6:18And ye, be shomer to keep yourselves from the cherem, lest ye make yourselves cherem, when ye take of the cherem, and make the Machaneh Yisroel cherem, and trouble it.
1 Samuel 2:7Hashem maketh poor, and bringeth oisher; 1 He bringeth low, and lifteth up. 1
2 Kings 5:26And he said unto him, Went not mine lev (spirit) with thee, when the ish turned again from his merkavah to meet thee? Is it a time to receive kesef, and to receive begadim, and zeitim (olive groves), and kramim, and tzon, and bakar, and avadim, and shefachot?
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 →