Tree of Life Version
Proverbs 8:18
18With me are wealth and honor, enduring riches and righteousness.
Proverbs 8:18 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Riches and honour are with me; yea, durable riches and righteousness.
- New International Version (NIV)With me are riches and honor, enduring wealth and prosperity.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Riches and honor are with me, enduring wealth and righteousness.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Riches and honor are with me, Enduring riches and righteousness.
Context of Proverbs 8:18
16By me princes govern, and all nobles who judge righteously. 17I love those who love me. Those who earnestly seek me find me. With me are wealth and honor, enduring riches and righteousness. 19My fruit is better than refined gold, my harvest better than choice silver. 20I walk in the way of righteousness, along paths of justice.
Read all of Proverbs 8Proverbs 8:18 word by word
עֹֽשֶׁר־וְכָב֥וֹד אִתִּ֑י ה֥וֹן עָ֝תֵ֗ק וּצְדָקָֽה׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Proverbs 8:18
- Proverbs 3:16Length of days is in her right hand. In her left hand are riches and honor.
- Proverbs 4:7Wisdom is supreme—acquire wisdom! With all your acquisitions, get understanding.
- James 2:5Listen, my dear brothers and sisters. Didn’t God choose the poor in this world to be rich in faith and heirs of the Kingdom that He promised to those who love Him?
- Psalms 36:6Your love, Adonai, is in the heavens, Your faithfulness up to the skies.
- Ecclesiastes 5:14As he came from his mother’s womb, naked he will return as he came. He takes nothing from his labor that he can carry in his hand.
- Matthew 6:19“Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal.
- Luke 10:42but only one thing is necessary. For Miriam has chosen the good part, which will not be taken away from her.”
- Luke 12:20But God said to him, ‘You fool! Tonight your soul is being demanded back from you! And what you have prepared, whose will that be?’
- Luke 16:11So then, if you cannot be trusted with unjust wealth, who will trust you with true wealth?
- 2 Corinthians 6:10as grieving yet always rejoicing; as poor yet enriching many; as having nothing yet possessing everything.
- Ephesians 3:8This favor was given to me, the very least of His kedoshim, to proclaim to the Gentiles the endless riches of the Messiah
- Philippians 4:19My God will fulfill every need of yours according to the riches of His glory in Messiah Yeshua.
- 1 Timothy 6:17Direct those who are rich in this present age not to be proud or to fix their hope on the uncertainty of riches, but rather on God—who richly provides us with everything to enjoy.
- James 5:1Come now, you rich, weep and wail over the miseries that are coming upon you.
- Revelation 3:18I advise you to buy from Me gold refined by fire so that you may be rich, and white clothes so that you may dress yourself and so the shame of your nakedness will not be revealed, and eye salve to anoint your eyes so that you may see.
- Proverbs 11:4Riches make no profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death.
Commentaries on Proverbs 8:18
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 18Riches and honor are with me - Often the wise, prudent, and discreet man arrives literally to riches and honor; but this is not always the case. But there are other riches of which he never fails; and these seem to be what Solomon has particularly in view, durable riches and righteousness; the treasure deposited by God in earthen vessels.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 18Durable riches - i. e., Treasure piled up for many years; ancient wealth.Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 12-21Verses 12-21 Wisdom, here is Christ, in whom are all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge; it is Christ in the word, and Christ in the heart; not only Christ revealed to us, but Christ revealed in us. All prudence and skill are from the Lord. Through the redemption of Christ's precious blood, the riches of his grace abound in all wisdom and prudence. Man found out many inventions for ruin; God found one for our recovery. He hates pride and arrogance…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-36The first part of Proverbs reaches a peak when the son meets two women. Both invite the young man, and the reader, into a close relationship. The young man and the reader must choose between: The woman named Wisdom, who represents God's true wisdom (Proverbs 8:1–9:6) The woman named Folly (9:13–18), who represents worldly wisdom (1 Corinthians 1:18–2:16) Both women's houses are on "the heights of the city" (Proverbs 9:3, 14), which suggests ancient…Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1818. durable riches ... righteousness--Such are the "riches," enduring sources of happiness in moral possessions (compare Pr 3:16).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Proverbs 8
- 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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