Parallel Verses

Youngs Literal Translation

The blessing of Jehovah -- it maketh rich, And He addeth no grief with it.

New American Standard Bible

It is the blessing of the Lord that makes rich,
And He adds no sorrow to it.

King James Version

The blessing of the LORD, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it.

Holman Bible

The Lord’s blessing enriches,
and struggle adds nothing to it.

International Standard Version

The blessing of the LORD establishes wealth, and difficulty does not accompany it.

A Conservative Version

The blessing of LORD, it makes rich, and he adds no sorrow with it.

American Standard Version

The blessing of Jehovah, it maketh rich; And he addeth no sorrow therewith.

Amplified


The blessing of the Lord brings [true] riches,
And He adds no sorrow to it [for it comes as a blessing from God].

Bible in Basic English

The blessing of the Lord gives wealth: hard work makes it no greater.

Darby Translation

The blessing of Jehovah, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow to it.

Julia Smith Translation

The blessing of Jehovah it will make rich, and it will not add pain with it

King James 2000

The blessing of the LORD, it makes rich, and he adds no sorrow with it.

Lexham Expanded Bible

The blessing of Yahweh makes [one] rich, and he does not increase sorrow with it.

Modern King James verseion

The blessing of Jehovah itself makes rich, and He adds no sorrow with it.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

The blessing of the LORD, maketh rich men; as for careful travail, it doth nothing thereto.

NET Bible

The blessing from the Lord makes a person rich, and he adds no sorrow to it.

New Heart English Bible

The LORD's blessing brings wealth, and he adds no trouble to it.

The Emphasized Bible

The blessing of Yahweh, itself maketh rich, and he addeth no grievance therewith.

Webster

The blessing of the LORD, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with it.

World English Bible

Yahweh's blessing brings wealth, and he adds no trouble to it.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
בּרכה 
B@rakah 
Usage: 69

of the Lord

Usage: 0

עשׁר 
`ashar 
Usage: 17

and he addeth
יסף 
Yacaph 
Usage: 208

no sorrow
עצב 
`etseb 
Usage: 7

Context Readings

Proverbs Concerning The Mouth

21 The lips of the righteous delight many, And fools for lack of heart die. 22 The blessing of Jehovah -- it maketh rich, And He addeth no grief with it. 23 To execute inventions is as play to a fool, And wisdom to a man of understanding.

Cross References

Genesis 24:35

and Jehovah hath blessed my lord exceedingly, and he is great; and He giveth to him flock, and herd, and silver, and gold, and men-servants, and maid-servants, and camels, and asses;

Genesis 26:12

And Isaac soweth in that land, and findeth in that year a hundredfold, and Jehovah blesseth him;

Psalm 37:22

For His blessed ones do possess the land, And His reviled ones are cut off.

Genesis 12:2

And I make thee become a great nation, and bless thee, and make thy name great; and be thou a blessing.

Genesis 13:2

and Abram is exceedingly wealthy in cattle, in silver, and in gold.

Genesis 14:23

from a thread even unto a shoe-latchet I take not of anything which thou hast, that thou say not, I -- I have made Abram rich;

Joshua 6:18

and surely ye have kept from the devoted thing, lest ye devote yourselves, and have taken from the devoted thing, and have made the camp of Israel become a devoted thing, and have troubled it;

Joshua 7:1-26

And the sons of Israel commit a trespass in the devoted thing, and Achan, son of Carmi, son of Zabdi, son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, taketh of the devoted thing, and the anger of Jehovah burneth against the sons of Israel.

1 Samuel 2:7-8

Jehovah dispossesseth, and He maketh rich, He maketh low, yea, He maketh high.

1 Kings 21:19

and thou hast spoken unto him, saying, Thus said Jehovah, Hast thou murdered, and also possessed? and thou hast spoken unto him, saying, Thus said Jehovah, In the place where the dogs licked the blood of Naboth, do the dogs lick thy blood, even thine.'

2 Kings 5:26-27

And he saith unto him, 'My heart went not when the man turned from off his chariot to meet thee; is it a time to take silver, and to take garments, and olives, and vines, and flock, and herd, and men-servants, and maid-servants?

Job 27:8-23

For what is the hope of the profane, When He doth cut off? When God doth cast off his soul?

Psalm 107:38

And He blesseth them, and they multiply exceedingly, And their cattle He doth not diminish.

Psalm 113:7-8

He is raising up from the dust the poor, From a dunghill He exalteth the needy.

Proverbs 20:21

An inheritance gotten wrongly at first, Even its latter end is not blessed.

Habakkuk 2:6-12

Do not these -- all of them -- against him a simile taken up, And a moral of acute sayings for him, And say, Woe to him who is multiplying what is not his? Till when also is he multiplying to himself heavy pledges?

Zechariah 5:4

I have brought it out -- an affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts -- and it hath come in unto the house of the thief, and unto the house of him who hath sworn in My name to a falsehood, and it hath remained in the midst of his house, and hath consumed it, both its wood and its stones.'

James 5:1-5

Go, now, ye rich! weep, howling over your miseries that are coming upon you;

Deuteronomy 8:17-18

and thou hast said in thy heart, My power, and the might of my hand, hath made for me this wealth:

Proverbs 28:22

Troubled for wealth is the man with an evil eye, And he knoweth not that want doth meet him.

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