Proverbs 10:22

The blessing of the LORD, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it.

Ver. 22. The blessing of the Lord it maketh rich.] As is to be seen in the examples of the patriarchs, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and others. Whereas there is a curse upon unlawful practices, though men be industrious, as in Jehoiachim. Jer 22:30 And all our policies without prayer are but arena sine calce - sand without lime; they will not hold together.

And he addeth no sorrow with it.] Those three vultures shall be driven away that constantly feed on the wealthy worldling's heart - care in getting, fear in keeping, grief in losing the things of this life. God giveth to his, wealth without woe, store without sore, gold without guilt, one little drop whereof troubleth the whole sea of all outward comforts. Richard III had a whole kingdom at command, and yet could not rest in his bed for disquietment of mind. Polydor Virgil thus writes of his dream that night before Besworth Field, that he thought all the devils in hell pulled and haled him in most hideous and ugly shapes, and concludes of it at last: ‘I do not think it was so much his dream as his evil conscience that bred those terrors.'