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the Week of Christ the King / Proper 29 / Ordinary 34
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King James Version

Psalms 112:5

A good man sheweth favour, and lendeth: he will guide his affairs with discretion.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Creditor;   Faith;   Kindness;   Lending;   Liberality;   Poor;   Prudence;   Righteous;   Righteousness;   Thompson Chain Reference - Business Life;   Credit System;   Lending;   Social Duties;   The Topic Concordance - Charity;   Fear;   Goodness;   Lending;   Righteousness;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Prudence;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Delight;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Mercy, Merciful;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Acrostic;   Ethics;   Hallelujah;   Psalms;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Passover;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Psalms the book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Alphabet;   Guide;   Justice;   Lend;   Poetry, Hebrew;   Wisdom;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Loans;  

Parallel Translations

New Living Translation
Good comes to those who lend money generously and conduct their business fairly.
English Revised Version
Well is it with the man that dealeth graciously and lendeth;
Update Bible Version
It is well with the man that deals graciously and lends; He shall maintain his cause in judgment.
New Century Version
It is good to be merciful and generous. Those who are fair in their business
New English Translation
It goes well for the one who generously lends money, and conducts his business honestly.
Webster's Bible Translation
A good man showeth favor, and lendeth: he will guide his affairs with discretion.
World English Bible
It is well with the man who deals graciously and lends. He will maintain his cause in judgment.
Amplified Bible
It is well with the man who is gracious and lends; He conducts his affairs with justice.
English Standard Version
It is well with the man who deals generously and lends; who conducts his affairs with justice.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
The man is merye, that doith merci, and leeneth; he disposith hise wordis in dom;
Berean Standard Bible
It is well with the man who is generous and lends freely, whose affairs are guided by justice.
Contemporary English Version
Life will go well for those who freely lend and are honest in business.
American Standard Version
Well is it with the man that dealeth graciously and lendeth; He shall maintain his cause in judgment.
Bible in Basic English
All is well for the man who is kind and gives freely to others; he will make good his cause when he is judged.
Complete Jewish Bible
Things go well with the person who is merciful and lends, who conducts his affairs with fairness;
Darby Translation
It is well with the man that is gracious and lendeth; he will sustain his cause in judgment.
Easy-to-Read Version
It is good for people to be kind and generous and to be fair in business.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Well is it with the man that dealeth graciously and lendeth, that ordereth his affairs rightfully.
King James Version (1611)
A good man sheweth fauour and lendeth: he will guide his affaires with discretion.
New Life Bible
Good will come to the man who is ready to give much, and fair in what he does.
New Revised Standard
It is well with those who deal generously and lend, who conduct their affairs with justice.
Geneva Bible (1587)
A good man is mercifull and lendeth, and will measure his affaires by iudgement.
George Lamsa Translation
Blessed is the man who shows mercy and lends; he shall proclaim his words with judgment.
Good News Translation
Happy is the person who is generous with his loans, who runs his business honestly.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Well for a man showing favour and lending! He shall sustain his affairs with justice.
Douay-Rheims Bible
(111-5) Acceptable is the man that sheweth mercy and lendeth: he shall order his words with judgment:
Revised Standard Version
It is well with the man who deals generously and lends, who conducts his affairs with justice.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
A good man is mercyfull and lendeth: he wyll guyde his wordes with discretion.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
The good man is he that pities and lends: he will direct his affairs with judgment.
Christian Standard Bible®
Good will come to the one who lends generouslyand conducts his business fairly.
Hebrew Names Version
It is well with the man who deals graciously and lends. He will maintain his cause in judgment.
Lexham English Bible
It goes well for a man who is gracious and lends, who conducts his business properly.
Literal Translation
Good is a man showing favor and lending; he will measure his matters with equity.
Young's Literal Translation
Good [is] the man -- gracious and lending, He sustaineth his matters in judgment.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Wel is him that is mercifull, & lendeth gladly, & podreth his wordes wt discrecion.
New American Standard Bible
It goes well for a person who is gracious and lends; He will maintain his cause in judgment.
New King James Version
A good man deals graciously and lends; He will guide his affairs with discretion.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
It is well with the man who is gracious and lends; He will maintain his cause in judgment.
Legacy Standard Bible
It is well with the man who is gracious and lends;Who sustains his works with justice.

Contextual Overview

1 Praise ye the Lord . Blessed is the man that feareth the Lord , that delighteth greatly in his commandments. 2 His seed shall be mighty upon earth: the generation of the upright shall be blessed. 3 Wealth and riches shall be in his house: and his righteousness endureth for ever. 4 Unto the upright there ariseth light in the darkness: he is gracious, and full of compassion, and righteous. 5 A good man sheweth favour, and lendeth: he will guide his affairs with discretion.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

good: Proverbs 2:20, Proverbs 12:2, Luke 23:50, Acts 11:24, Romans 5:7

showeth: Psalms 37:25, Psalms 37:26, Deuteronomy 15:7-10, Job 31:16-20, Luke 6:35

he will: Proverbs 17:18, Proverbs 18:9, Proverbs 22:26, Proverbs 22:27, Proverbs 24:27, Proverbs 24:30-34, Proverbs 27:23-27, John 6:12, Romans 12:11, Ephesians 5:15, Colossians 4:5

discretion: Heb. judgment, Philippians 1:9

Reciprocal: Genesis 14:15 - And he Genesis 23:17 - made sure Genesis 32:7 - and he Genesis 32:16 - space Genesis 47:23 - here is seed Genesis 47:24 - the fifth part Exodus 2:2 - she saw Leviticus 25:35 - then Deuteronomy 15:6 - thou shalt lend Judges 6:27 - he did it Ruth 4:3 - he said 1 Samuel 18:15 - wisely 1 Samuel 25:36 - she told him 2 Chronicles 19:11 - the good 2 Chronicles 23:2 - went about Nehemiah 4:13 - Therefore Esther 5:4 - the banquet Psalms 37:21 - righteous Proverbs 13:16 - prudent Proverbs 13:23 - destroyed Proverbs 14:21 - he that hath Proverbs 21:10 - findeth no favour Proverbs 28:27 - that giveth Isaiah 58:10 - thou draw Matthew 1:19 - a just Matthew 5:42 - General Matthew 25:35 - I was an Acts 20:35 - It is Ephesians 4:32 - kind Philippians 4:19 - supply

Gill's Notes on the Bible

A good man showeth favour, and lendeth,.... Without usury, hoping for nothing again: he pities those that labour under difficulties, for want of a little money; and he generously lends it till they are able to pay him again; which oftentimes is of as much service as if it was given; see Psalms 37:21. A good man is not only a man that has the good work of grace in him, and is ready to every good work; but one that is munificent, bountiful, and liberal; in which sense the word is used in Romans 5:7 and so in Latin writers n.

He will guide his affairs with discretion; his civil and domestic affairs: he will act the part of a good economist; so that he may be able to support his family with credit and reputation, and have something to give to the relief of those in want. Some restrain this to his acts of charity. He lends to some, and gives to others: he takes care that they to whom he gives are proper objects of charity; he gives to persons seasonably, and in proportion to his own ability and their wants. It may be rendered, "he shall guide his words with judgment" o; take care of what he says, and before whom; and that it be at a proper time and place; and especially when speaking of spiritual and religious things.

n "Bonus est hic homo", Plauti Poenulus, Act. 5. Sc. 4. v. 42. "Vellet bonus atque benignus", Horat. Satyr. I. 1. Sat. 2. v. 51. "Piso bonus", Juvenal. Sat. 5. v. 109. o דבריו במשפט "verba sua in, vel cum, judicio", Pagninus, Montanus, Musculus, Cocceius, Gejerus.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

A good man showeth favor - He has the means to show favor to others, or to promote their welfare, and he is disposed to do this. It is the characteristic of a good man - of a heart that is truly pious - to do good to others; to promote their welfare here, and to assist them in their endeavor to secure happiness in the world to come.

And lendeth - The original word here - לוה lâvâh - means to join oneself to anyone; to cleave to him; then, to form the union which is constituted between debtor and creditor, borrower and lender. Here it is used in the latter sense, and it means that a good man will accommodate another - a neighbor - with money, or with articles to be used temporarily and returned again. A man who always “borrows” is not a desirable neighbor; but a man who never lends - who is never willing to accommodate - is a neighbor that no one would wish to live near - a crooked, perverse, bad man. True religion will always dispose a man to do acts of kindness in any and every way possible.

He will guide his affairs - The word used here means literally to hold, contain; to hold up, or sustain; to nourish, to furnish the means of living. Genesis 45:11; Genesis 47:12; Genesis 50:21. Here it means that he would uphold or manage his business.

With discretion - Margin, “judgment;” so the Hebrew. He would do it prudently, sensibly, economically, wisely. This is, or should be, one of the characteristics of a good man. Religion prompts to this; religion will aid a man in doing this; religion will tend to check everything of a contrary nature. A man who neglects his “affairs,” who pays no attention to his business, who is indifferent whether he is successful or fails, is a man who gives “just so evidence” that he is a stranger to true religion.


 
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