Psalms 112:5 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁵A good man sheweth favour, and lendeth: he will guide his affairs with discretion.

Psalms 112:5 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 37:21
The wicked borroweth, and payeth not again: but the righteous sheweth mercy, and giveth.
Proverbs 2:20
That thou mayest walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous.
Ephesians 5:15
See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise,
Psalms 37:25-26
I have been young, and now am old; yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread. …
John 6:12
When they were filled, he said unto his disciples, Gather up the fragments that remain, that nothing be lost.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-5)

The psalmist begins with a call to us to praise God, but immediately applies himself to praise the people of God; for whatever glory is acknowledged to be on them it comes from God, and must return to him; as he is their praise, so they are his. We have reason to praise the Lord that there are a people in the world who fear him and serve him, and that they are a happy people, both which are owing…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 5)

5-9. Generosity, sound judgment in business, and confidence in God, form a character which preserves from fear of evil and ensures success against enemies. While a man thus truly pious is liberal, he increases in substance.