Proverbs 3:16

16. Right hand… left hand Wisdom is here represented as dispensing her blessings with both hands, that is, abundantly. Some of the older commentators, and also some of the later, think that the blessings of the right hand have the precedence in value. “It was but just,” says Patrick, “to place length of days in her right hand; that is, to give it the precedence, because it was the chief promise of the law, and, indeed, the most desirable of earthly blessings, without which nothing can be enjoyed: after this follow wealth and reputation, things that men mightily covet, which he places in her left hand, as inferior blessings, but which come also from her gift.” Others think this a fanciful elaboration of the simple idea. “It is highly probable that Solomon alludes here to the promise of God to him. 1 Kings 3:11-14; 2 Chronicles 1:11-12.” Muenscher.