Proverbs Chapter 8 verse 18 Holy Bible
Riches and honor are with me; `Yea', durable wealth and righteousness.
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Wealth and honour are in my hands, even wealth without equal and righteousness.
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Riches and honour are with me; durable wealth and righteousness.
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Riches and honour are with me; yea, durable riches and righteousness.
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With me are riches, honor, Enduring wealth, and prosperity.
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Wealth and honour `are' with me, Lasting substance and righteousness.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 18. - Riches and honour are with me (see Proverbs 3:16). Wisdom has these things in her possession to bestow on whom she will, as God gave them to Solomon in reward of his petition for wisdom (1 Kings 3:13). Durable riches and righteousness. Things often regarded as incompatible. Durable, עָתֵק (athek), occurs only here (but see Isaiah 23:18), and means "old," "venerable," "long accumulated;" hence firm and lasting. Righteousness is the last reward that Wisdom bestows, without which, indeed, all material blessings would be nothing worth. Wealth obtained in a right way, and rightly used, is durable and stable. This was especially true under a temporal dispensation. We Christians, however, look not for reward in uncertain riches, but in God's favour here and happiness in another world. The Septuagint, "Possession of many things, and righteousness." What is denoted by "righteousness" is further explained in the following verses, 19-21.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(18) Riches and honour are with me.--"If this passage is taken in a material sense, Psalm 112:3 and the promises in the Pentateuch of wealth as the reward of obedience might be compared with it. But doubtless the "true riches" (Luke 16:11) are here alluded to, the consciousness of possessing God's honour and favour, called in Ephesians 3:8 the "unsearchable riches of Christ."
