²¹ The lips of the righteous feed many: but fools die for lack of wisdom. ²² The blessing of the LORD, it makes rich, and he adds no sorrow with it. ²³ It is as sport to a fool to do wrong: but a man of understanding has wisdom.

Phrases

Blessing of the Lord

From the Lord

Names

Jehovah

No

Cross References

Genesis 24:35

And the LORD has blessed my master greatly; and he has become great: and he has given him flocks, and herds, and silver, and gold, and menservants, and maidservants, and camels, and donkeys.

Genesis 26:12

Then Isaac sowed in that land, and received in the same year a hundredfold: and the LORD blessed him.

Psalm 37:22

For such as be blessed of him shall inherit the earth; and they that be cursed of him shall be cut off.

Genesis 12:2

And I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you, and make your name great; and you shall be a blessing:

Genesis 13:2

And Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold.

Genesis 14:23

That I will not take from a thread even to a shoe thong, and that I will not take anything that is yours, lest you should say, I have made Abram rich:

Joshua 6:18

And you, by all means keep yourselves from the accursed thing, lest you make yourselves accursed, when you take of the accursed thing, and make the camp of Israel a curse, and trouble it.

Joshua 7:1-26

But the children of Israel committed a trespass in the accursed thing: for Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took of the accursed thing: and the anger of the LORD was kindled against the children of Israel.

1 Samuel 2:7-8

The LORD makes poor, and makes rich: he brings low, and lifts up.

1 Kings 21:19

And you shall speak unto him, saying, Thus says the LORD, Have you killed, and also taken possession? And you shall speak unto him, saying, Thus says the LORD, In the place where dogs licked the blood of Naboth shall dogs lick your blood, even yours.

2 Kings 5:26-27

And he said unto him, Went not my heart with you, when the man turned again from his chariot to meet you? Is it a time to receive money, and to receive garments, and oliveyards, and vineyards, and sheep, and oxen, and menservants, and maidservants?

Job 27:8-23

For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he has gained, when God takes away his soul?

Psalm 107:38

He blesses them also, so that they are multiplied greatly; and permits not their cattle to decrease.

Psalm 113:7-8

He raises up the poor out of the dust, and lifts the needy out of the ash heap;

Proverbs 20:21

An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed.

Habakkuk 2:6-12

Shall not all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, Woe to him that increases that which is not his! how long? and to him that loads himself with many pledges!

Zechariah 5:4

I will bring it forth, says the LORD of hosts, and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him that swears falsely by my name: and it shall remain in the midst of his house, and shall consume it with its timber and its stones.