Proverbs 22:4

By humility and the fear of the LORD are riches, and honour, and life. BY (HEBREW, THE END OR REWARD OF) HUMILITY, (AND) THE FEAR OF THE LORD, (ARE) RICHES, HONOUR, AND LIFE - (; ; ), True "humility" is the inseparable associate of "the fear of the Lord." The humble, affected with a true sense of the divine majesty, cannot but feel their own vileness and nothingness by the comparison....

Better, (compare the margin) The reward of humility (is) the fear of the Lord, “riches, and honor, and life....

EXPOSITION PROVERBS 22:1 A GOOD NAME IS RATHER TO BE CHOSEN THAN GREAT RICHES. It will be observed that "good" in the Authorized Version is in italics, showing that the epithet is not expressed in the Hebrew, which is simply שֵׁם (_shem_)_, _"name." But this word carried with it the notion of good repute, as in Ecclesiastes 7:1; for being well known implied honour and reputation, while being nameless (Job 30:8) signified not only obscurity, but ignominy and discredit. Hence the versions have ὄνομα καλόν_, nomen bonum, _and Ecclesiasticus 41:12, "Have regard to thy name (περὶ ὀνόματος)_, _for that shall continue with thee above a thousan

BY HUMILITY [AND] THE FEAR OF THE LORD,.... Some render it, "the reward of humility, which [is] the fear of the Lord" r; so the Targum; an humble man is blessed with it. Jarchi's note is, "because of humility, the fear of the Lord comes;'' humility leads on to the fear of the Lord; he that behaves humbly towards man comes at length to fear the Lord, and be truly religious: though these are rather to be considered as the graces of the Spirit of God, which go together where there is one, there is the other; he that is humbled under a sense of sin, and his own unworthiness, fears the Lord; and he that fears the Lord, and his goodness, will walk humbly before him; they both flow from the grace of God, are very ornamental, and attended with the following happy consequences; [ARE] RICHES, AND HONOUR, AND LIFE; spiritual riches, the riches of grace and glory; honour with God and men now, and...

FEAR (_ See Scofield) - (Psalms 19:9). _...

CHAPTER 22 INSTRUCTIONS CONTINUED Better than great riches, better than silver and gold is a name and loving favor. If a person has riches and a bad name and is not well thought of, he is less honorable than the poor man who has a name and good reputation. In Ecclesiastes, Solomon says: “A good name is better than precious ointment” Ecclesiastes 7:11). The third verse has a wise message: “The prudent man foreseeth the evil and hideth himself, but the simple pass on, and suffer for it.” The Lord has revealed in His Word the evil which is in store for the sinner and the impenitent. He also has prepared a hiding place, an ark of safety, in His Son, our Lord. The prudent believeth the Word and flees to the refuge; the simple, the unbelieving, pass on and suffer for it when the evil comes. Humility and the fear of the Lord has a reward, while thorns and snares are in the way of the

PROVERBS 22:6. IN THE WAY HE SHOULD GO puts more into the Heb. than it contains. It is lit. train up a child in proportion to his way_ i.e._ train him suitably. The moral implication is absent. The stress is on the effect of training. Proverbs 22:11. RV hides disorder of MT. Read, probably, The king loves the pure in heart, grace of lips is his good pleasure. Proverbs 22:12 a is difficult. RV will not pass. The lit. Heb. is the eyes of Yahweh guard knowledge. The abstract knowledge in Heb. cannot mean its possessors; the eyes of Yahweh are nowhere said to guard anybody, and no Hebrew would say that the eyes of Yahweh guard knowledge in the sense of possessing it, nor does it give any

BY HUMILITY, &C.. The reward of humility [that is] the fear of the Jehovah, will be, &c. THE FEAR OF THE LORD. See note on Proverbs 1:7. LIFE: i.e. resurrection and eternal life. See note on Leviticus 18:5. not necessarily long life on earth....

_By humility_&c. Rather, THE REWARD OF HUMILITY _and_(or, _even_) OF THE FEAR OF THE LORD. The copula _and_is dispensed with in the Heb. because of the similarity, amounting almost to identity, of _humility_and _the fear of Jehovah_. Comp. Matthew 5:3; Matthew 5:5....

BY HUMILITY AND THE FEAR OF THE LORD— _The reward of meekness, which is the fear of the Lord, is wealth,_ &c. Schultens. Houbigant renders it, _The rewards of modesty and the fear of the Lord, are,_ &c. Or it may be rendered, _The fruit of humility._ &c....