Proverbs 20:7
As for a righteous man, walking in his integrity, how happy are his children after him!
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
The just man walketh in his integrity: his children are blessed after him.
In Context
6A kind man one may call, a great man,—but, a faithful man, who can find?
8A king sitting on the throne of judgment, scattereth, with his eyes, all wrong.
Cross References
Job 1:1A man, there was—in the land of Uz, Job, his name,—and that man was blameless and upright, and one who revered God, and avoided evil.
Psalms 26:1Do me justice, O Yahweh, For, I, in my blamelessness, have walked, and, in Yahweh, have I trusted, I will not waver.
Psalms 37:26All day long, is he showing favour and lending, his seed, therefore, shall have a blessing.
Proverbs 13:22A good man, leaveth an inheritance to children’s children, but, laid up for the righteous, is the wealth of the sinner.
Proverbs 14:26In the reverence of Yahweh, is strong security, and, his children, shall have a place of refuge.
Isaiah 33:15He that walketh righteously, And speaketh uprightly,—He that refuseth the gain of exactions That shaketh his hands free from holding a bribe, That stoppeth his ear from hearkening to deeds of blood, And shutteth his eyes from giving countenance to wrong,
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 20:7
6 Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness: but a faithful man who can find? Note, 1. It is easy to find those that will pretend to be kind and liberal. Many a man will call himself a man of mercy, will boast what good he has done and what good he designs to do, or, at least, what an affection he has to well-doing. Most men will talk a great deal of their charity, generosity, hospitality, and piety, will sound a trumpet to themselves, as the Pharisees, and what little goodness they have will proclaim it… Read the whole commentary →