22A good man leaveth an inheritance to his children's children: and the wealth of the sinner is laid up for the just.
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For God giveth to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he giveth travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him that is good before God. This also is vanity and vexation of spirit.
Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare raiment as the clay; …
He that by usury and unjust gain increaseth his substance, he shall gather it for him that will pity the poor.
His seed shall be mighty upon earth: the generation of the upright shall be blessed.
I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 22)See here, 1. How a good man’s estate lasts: He leaves an inheritance to his children’s children . It is part of his praise that he is thoughtful for posterity, that he does not lay all out upon himself, but is in care to do well for those that come after him, not by withholding more than is meet, but by a prudent and decent frugality. He trains up his children to this, that they may leave it to th…
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