Tree of Life Version
Proverbs 3:16
16Length of days is in her right hand. In her left hand are riches and honor.
Proverbs 3:16 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Length of days is in her right hand; and in her left hand riches and honour.
- New International Version (NIV)Long life is in her right hand; in her left hand are riches and honor.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Long life is in her right hand; in her left hand are riches and honor.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Length of days is in her right hand, In her left hand riches and honor.
Context of Proverbs 3:16
14For her trade-value is better than silver, and her yield better than fine gold. 15She is more precious than jewels and nothing you desire compares to her. Length of days is in her right hand. In her left hand are riches and honor. 17Her ways are pleasant ways, and all of her paths are shalom. 18She is a tree of life to those who embrace her, and blessed will be all who hold firmly to her.
Read all of Proverbs 3Proverbs 3:16 word by word
אֹ֣רֶךְ יָ֭מִים בִּֽימִינָ֑הּ בִּ֝שְׂמֹאולָ֗הּ עֹ֣שֶׁר וְכָבֽוֹד׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Proverbs 3:16
- Proverbs 3:2For length of days and years of life, and shalom they will add to you.
- Proverbs 4:10Listen, my son, and accept my words, so the years of your life will be many.
- Psalms 21:4For You met him with the best blessings. You set on his head a crown of pure gold.
- Psalms 71:9Do not cast me away in the time of old age. When my strength fails, do not forsake me.
- 1 Timothy 4:8For physical exercise has some benefit; but godliness is beneficial for all things, holding promise for both the present life and the one to come.
- Proverbs 4:6Do not forsake her, and she will guard you. Love her, and she will watch over you.
- Proverbs 8:18With me are wealth and honor, enduring riches and righteousness.
- 1 Kings 3:13Moreover I have also given you what you did not request—both riches and honor—so that no one among the kings will be like you all your days.
- Mark 10:30who will not receive a hundred times as much now in this time, houses and brothers and sisters and mothers and children and property, along with persecutions; and in the olam ha-ba , eternal life.
- 1 Corinthians 3:21So let no one boast about men. For all things are yours—
- 2 Corinthians 6:10as grieving yet always rejoicing; as poor yet enriching many; as having nothing yet possessing everything.
Commentaries on Proverbs 3:16
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 16Length of days is in her right hand - A wicked man shortens his days by excesses; a righteous man prolongs his by temperance. In her left hand riches and honor - That is, her hands are full of the choicest benefits. There is nothing to be understood here by the right hand in preference to the left.Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 13-20Verses 13-20 No precious jewels or earthly treasures are worthy to be compared with true wisdom, whether the concerns of time or eternity be considered. We must make wisdom our business; we must venture all in it, and be willing to part with all for it. This Wisdom is the Lord Jesus Christ and his salvation, sought and obtained by faith and prayer. Were it not for unbelief, remaining sinfulness, and carelessness, we should find all our ways pleasantness…Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 16-1716-17. Wisdom personified as bringing the best blessings (compare Mt 6:33; 1Ti 4:8).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Proverbs 3
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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