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2For thou shalt eat the labour of thine hands: happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Say ye to the righteous, that it shall be well with him: for they shall eat the fruit of their doings.
The LORD hath sworn by his right hand, and by the arm of his strength, Surely I will no more give thy corn to be meat for thine enemies; and the sons of the stranger shall not drink thy wine, for the which thou hast laboured:
And they shall build houses, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them. …
Behold that which I have seen: it is good and comely for one to eat and to drink, and to enjoy the good of all his labour that he taketh under the sun all the days of his life, which God giveth him: for it is his portion. …
Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-6)It is here shown that godliness has the promise of the life that now is and of that which is to come. I. It is here again and again laid down as an undoubted truth that those who are truly holy are truly happy . Those whose blessed state we are here assured of are such as fear the Lord and walk in his ways , such as have a deep reverence of God upon their spirits and evidence it by a regular and c…
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