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Proverbs 3:16
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Long life is in her right hand;in her left, riches and honor.
Length of days is in her right hand. In her left hand are riches and honor.
Length of days is in her right hand; and in her left hand riches and honour.
Long life is in her right hand; in her left hand are riches and honor.
With her right hand wisdom offers you a long life, and with her left hand she gives you riches and honor.
Long life is in her right hand; in her left hand are riches and honor.
Long life is in her right hand; In her left hand are riches and honor.
Long life is in her right hand; In her left hand are riches and honor.
Length of days is in her right hand. In her left hand are riches and honor.
Length of dayes is in her right hand, and in her left hand riches and glory.
Length of days is in her right hand;In her left hand are riches and glory.
Long life is in her right hand; in her left hand are riches and honor.
In her right hand Wisdom holds a long life, and in her left hand are wealth and honor.
Long life is in her right hand, riches and honor in her left.
Length of days is in her right hand; in her left hand riches and honour.
With her right hand, Wisdom offers long life—with the other hand, riches and honor.
Length of days is in her right hand; and in her left hand riches and honor.
Wisdom offers you long life, as well as wealth and honor.
Length of days is in her right hand; in her left hand are riches and honor.
Length of days is in her right hand, riches and honor in her left hand.
Vpon hir right hande is longe life, & vpon hir left hande is riches & honor.
Length of days is in her right hand; In her left hand are riches and honor.
Long life is in her right hand, and in her left are wealth and honour.
Length of days is in her right hand; in her left hand are riches and honour.
Length of dayes is in her right hand: and in her left hand, riches and honour.
In her right hande is long life, and in her left hande riches and honour.
For length of existence and years of life are in her right hand; and in her left hand are wealth and glory: out of her mouth proceeds righteousness, and she carries law and mercy upon her tongue.
Lengthe of daies is in the riythalf therof, and richessis and glorie ben in the lifthalf therof.
Length of days is in her right hand; In her left hand are riches and honor.
Length of days [is] in her right hand; [and] in her left hand riches and honor.
Length of days is in her right hand, In her left hand riches and honor.
She offers you long life in her right hand, and riches and honor in her left.
Long life is in her right hand. Riches and honor are in her left hand.
Long life is in her right hand; in her left hand are riches and honor.
Length of days, is in her right hand, in her left, are riches and honour;
Length of days is in her right hand, and in her left hand riches and glory.
Long life is in her right hand; in her left hand are riches and honor.
Length of days [is] in her right hand, In her left [are] wealth and honour.
Long life is in her right hand; In her left hand are riches and honor.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Length: Proverbs 3:2, Proverbs 4:10, Psalms 21:4, Psalms 71:9, 1 Timothy 4:8
and: Proverbs 4:6-9, Proverbs 8:18-21, 1 Kings 3:13, Mark 10:30, 1 Corinthians 3:21-23, 2 Corinthians 6:10
Reciprocal: Exodus 20:12 - that thy Deuteronomy 6:2 - thy days Deuteronomy 11:9 - prolong Deuteronomy 11:21 - your days Joshua 22:8 - Return 1 Kings 3:14 - I will lengthen Job 39:12 - gather Job 42:17 - General Psalms 19:11 - keeping Psalms 91:16 - With long life Psalms 112:3 - Wealth Proverbs 9:11 - General Proverbs 10:27 - fear Proverbs 22:4 - By Daniel 6:2 - of Romans 2:10 - glory 2 Corinthians 6:7 - on the right
Cross-References
Now the serpent was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of any tree of the garden?
And when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and that it was a delight to the eyes, and that the tree was to be desired to make one wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat; and she gave also unto her husband with her, and he did eat.
And the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together, and made themselves aprons.
And they heard the voice of the LORD God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the LORD God amongst the trees of the garden.
And the LORD God called unto the man, and said unto him, Where art thou?
And he said, I heard thy voice in the garden, and I was afraid, because I was naked; and I hid myself.
And he said, Who told thee that thou wast naked? Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?
And the man said, The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat.
Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.
And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in toil shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Length of days [is] in her right hand,.... Wisdom is here represented as a queen, as indeed she is above all kings and queens; see Proverbs 8:15; holding in one hand, instead of a sceptre, "length of days"; and in the other, instead of a globe, riches and honour: the allusion is thought by some on this clause to be to an ancient custom of numbering things, and the ages of men, by the hand and fingers, beginning with the left hand, and when they came to a hundred went to the right z; so that in that might be truly said to be "length of days", few arriving to that number: or rather the reference is to what Solomon received of the Lord, who, asking wisdom, had not that only, but a long life, and riches and honour; see 1 Kings 3:11. Some think that only temporal blessings are here meant, and, because health and long life are preferable to wealth and honour, the former are said to be in the right hand, and the latter in the left; but seeing in the preceding verses the advantages of wisdom are superior to silver, gold, and precious stones, it can hardly be thought that she should be represented as only having temporal blessings in her hands to bestow on her followers. Others are of opinion that spiritual and eternal blessings are the right hand ones, being the principal; and temporal blessings are the left hand ones, as being the less valuable, Matthew 6:33; but to me they seem all of one sort, all spiritual and eternal ones, even those of the left hand, by comparing this passage with Proverbs 8:18. By "length of days" is meant "length of days for ever and ever", Psalms 21:4; or eternal life, a life of vision or enjoyment of God; a life of perfect knowledge, holiness, and pleasure; being free from all the imperfections, difficulties, and distresses of the present one, and which will last for ever; this is in the hand of Christ, not the promise and grant of it only, but the thing itself, in consequence of his asking it of his Father: and which he has in a covenant way, and so has a right and power to bestow it: and it being in his hands shows both the valuableness and the security and safety of it; and also that it is to be had from him, and is in his gift, and in no other; and is a pure gift of his grace; wherefore happy is the man that finds Wisdom, or Christ, since he finds and has eternal life in him;
[and] in her left hand riches and honour; by "riches" are meant not temporal riches, for these are not always to the wise, nor to the children of Wisdom, nor of Christ; and all that have these are not happy, nor are they durable: but spiritual riches are intended, the riches of grace; of pardoning, justifying, and sanctifying grace, and of all supplies of grace; and also the riches of glory, which are solid and satisfying, immense and unsearchable, lasting and durable: and by "honour" is designed not the honour which comes from men, or the honour of this world; for such who find Christ, and are possessed of him, and profess him, have but a small share of this, being, generally speaking, accounted the faith and offscouring of the world; but yet they are the children of God, and so have that name which is better than to be the sons and daughters of the greatest monarch; they are the spouse of Christ, and so his queen that stands at his right hand in gold of Ophir; they are made kings and priests unto God, and shall reign with Christ for evermore; this honour have all the saints, and is what is in the hands of Christ to give, and does give, to all that believe in him: or "glory" a, as the word signifies; the glory of God, eternal glory; this as well as grace is Christ's gift, Psalms 84:11.
z Vid. Nebrissens. Quinquagena, c. 16. & Alex. ab Alex. Genial. Dier l. 1. c. 14. to which Juvenial refers, when speaking of Nestor, "----suos jam dextra computat annos", Satyr. 10. v. 249. a כבוד "gloria", V. L. Pagninus, Montanus, Mercerus, Gejerus, Cocceius, Schultens.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Proverbs 3:16. Length of days is in her right hand — A wicked man shortens his days by excesses; a righteous man prolongs his by temperance.
In her left hand riches and honour. — That is, her hands are full of the choicest benefits. There is nothing to be understood here by the right hand in preference to the left.
