Yahweh’s blessing brings wealth, and he adds no trouble to it.
Parallel translations
- KJV The blessing of the LORD, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it.
- BSB The blessing of the LORD enriches, and He adds no sorrow to it.
- NKJV The blessing of the Lord makes one rich, And He adds no sorrow with it.
- NASB It is the blessing of the Lord that makes rich, And He adds no sorrow to it.
- NLT The blessing of the Lord makes a person rich, and he adds no sorrow with it.
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Quick answer
Yahweh's blessing brings wealth, and he adds no sorrow with it. True prosperity comes from God and is free of the grief that ill-gotten gain carries.
Overview
This proverb attributes genuine, untroubled prosperity to the Lord's blessing rather than to anxious or sinful striving. God-given blessing does not come laden with the sorrow that accompanies wealth wrongly gained. It calls us to trust the Lord as the source of every good gift (James 1:17) rather than scheming for gain.
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- Ps 107:38He blesses them also, so that they are multiplied greatly. He doesn’t allow their livestock to decrease.
- Gen 26:12Isaac sowed in that land, and reaped in the same year one hundred times what he planted. Yahweh blessed him.
- 1 Sam 2:7–8Yahweh makes poor, and makes rich. He brings low, he also lifts up.
- Gen 24:35Yahweh has blessed my master greatly. He has become great. He has given him flocks and herds, silver and gold, male servants and female servants, and camels and donkeys.
- Gen 12:2I will make of you a great nation. I will bless you and make your name great. You will be a blessing.
- Deut 8:17–18and lest you say in your heart, “My power and the might of my hand has gotten me this wealth.”
- Ps 37:22For such as are blessed by him shall inherit the land. Those who are cursed by him shall be cut off.
- Ps 113:7–8He raises up the poor out of the dust. Lifts up the needy from the ash heap;
- Prov 20:21An inheritance quickly gained at the beginning, won’t be blessed in the end.
- Gen 13:2Abram was very rich in livestock, in silver, and in gold.
- Prov 28:22A stingy man hurries after riches, and doesn’t know that poverty waits for him.
- 2 Kgs 5:26–27He said to him, “Didn’t my heart go with you, when the man turned from his chariot to meet you? Is it a time to receive money, and to receive garments, and olive groves and vineyards, and sheep and cattle, and male servants and female servants?
- Zech 5:4I will cause it to go out,” says Yahweh of Armies, “and it will enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him who swears falsely by my name; and it will remain in the middle of his house, and will destroy it with its timber and its stones.”
- Gen 14:23that I will not take a thread nor a sandal strap nor anything that is yours, lest you should say, ‘I have made Abram rich.’
- Job 27:8–23For what is the hope of the godless, when he is cut off, when God takes away his life?
- Jas 5:1–5Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming on you.
- Josh 7:1–26But the children of Israel committed a trespass in the devoted things; for Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took some of the devoted things. Therefore Yahweh’s anger burned against the children of Israel.
- Josh 6:18But as for you, only keep yourselves from what is devoted to destruction, lest when you have devoted it, you take of the devoted thing; so you would make the camp of Israel accursed, and trouble it.
- 1 Kgs 21:19You shall speak to him, saying, ‘Yahweh says, “Have you killed and also taken possession?”’ You shall speak to him, saying, ‘Yahweh says, “In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth, dogs will lick your blood, even yours.”’”
- Hab 2:6–12Won’t all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, ‘Woe to him who increases that which is not his, and who enriches himself by extortion! How long?’
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