By humility and the fear of the LORD are riches, and honour, and life.
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Gill's Exposition
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…
Barnes' Notes
Better, (compare the margin) The reward of humility (is) the fear of the Lord, “riches, and honor, and life.
Matthew Henry
See here, 1. Wherein religion does very much consist - in humility and the fear of the Lord; that is, walking humbly with God. We must so reverence God's majesty and authority as to submit with all…
Cambridge Bible
By humility&c. Rather, The reward of humility and(or, even) of the fear of the Lord. The copula andis dispensed with in the Heb. because of the similarity, amounting almost to identity, of humilityand…
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