Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae - Proverbs 10:22
DISCOURSE: 775GOD’S BLESSING, THE GREATEST RICHESProverbs 10:22. The blessing of the Lord, it maketh rich; and he addeth no sorrow with it.AMIDST the lessons of practical wisdom which we are taught in the Book of Proverbs, we find a continual reference to God as the source and the end of all. If we attempt to spiritualize the different moral apophthegms, we in fact pervert them, and apply them to a use for which they were never intended: if, on the other hand, we regard them solely in a moral... read more
Sermon Bible Commentary - Proverbs 10:29
Proverbs 10:29 The words "shall be" in the last clause are a supplement. They are quite unnecessary, and in fact they rather hinder the sense. They destroy the completeness of the antithesis between the two halves of the verse. If you leave them out, and suppose that the "way of the Lord" is what is spoken of in both clauses, you get a far deeper and fuller meaning. It is the same way which is strength to one man and ruin to another, and the moral nature of the man determines which it shall be... read more