Proverbs 10:22

Bishops' Bible (1568)

The blessyng of the Lorde maketh riche: and bryngeth no sorowe of heart with it.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

בִּרְכַּ֣ת יְ֭הוָה הִ֣יא תַעֲשִׁ֑יר וְלֹֽא־יוֹסִ֖ף עֶ֣צֶב עִמָּֽהּ׃

Transliteration

birkat YHWH hîʾ taʿăšîr wə-lōʾ-yôsip ʿeṣeb ʿimmāh

Grammar Details

• *birkat*: feminine singular construct - blessing of
• *YHWH*: proper name - LORD
• *hîʾ*: 3rd person feminine singular pronoun - it/she
• *taʿăšîr*: Hiphil imperfect 3rd person feminine singular - makes rich
• *wə-lōʾ*: conjunction + negative particle - and not
• *yôsip*: Hiphil imperfect 3rd person masculine singular - adds
• *ʿeṣeb*: masculine singular noun - pain/sorrow
• *ʿimmāh*: preposition with 3rd person feminine singular suffix - with it

Word Meanings

• *birkat*: blessing/prosperity/gift
• *taʿăšîr*: makes rich/enriches/brings wealth
• *yôsip*: adds/increases/continues
• *ʿeṣeb*: pain/sorrow/toil/hardship
• *ʿimmāh*: with it/alongside it/accompanying it

Referenced Verses

• Gen 24:35 : 35 And God blessed my maister merueylously, that he is become great, and hath geuen him sheepe and oxen, siluer and golde, men seruauntes, and maydeseruauntes, camelles and asses.
• Ps 107:38 : 38 He blesseth them, so that they multiplie exceedingly: and he suffereth not their cattle to decrease.
• Gen 26:12 : 12 Then Isahac sowed in that lande, and receaued in the same yere an hundred folde: and the Lorde blessed hym.
• Gen 12:2 : 2 And I will make of thee a great people, and wyll blesse thee, and make thy name great, that thou shalt be euen a blessyng.
• Ps 113:7-8 : 7 He rayseth vp the simple out of the dust: and lyfteth vp the poore from the dounghyll. 8 For to make him sit with the princes: euen with the princes of his people.
• Prov 20:21 : 21 The heritage that commeth hastylye at the first, shall not be blessed at the ende.
• Ps 37:22 : 22 Suche as be blessed of God shall possesse the lande: and they that be cursed of hym, shalbe rooted out.
• Hab 2:6-9 : 6 Shall not all these take vp a parable against him? and a taunting prouerbe against him, and say: Wo he that increaseth that which is not his? how long? and he that ladeth him selfe with thicke clay? 7 Shall they not rise vp sodenly that shall byte thee? and awake that shall stirre thee, & thou shalt be their pray? 8 Because thou hast spoyled many nations, all the remnaunt of the people shall spoyle thee, because of mens blood, and for the wrong done in the lande, in the citie, and vnto all that dwell therin. 9 Wo he that coueteth an euyll couetousnesse to his house, that he may set his nest on hie, to escape from the power of euyll. 10 Thou hast consulted shame to thyne owne house, by destroying many people, & hast sinned against thyne owne soule. 11 For the stone shall crye out of the wal, and the beame out of the timber shall aunswere it. 12 Wo vnto him that buyldeth a towne with blood, and erecteth a citie by iniquitie.
• Zech 5:4 : 4 And I wil bring it foorth saith the lord of hoastes, so that it shall enter into the house of the theefe, and into the house of him that falsely sweareth by my name: and shall remayne in his house, and consume it, with the timber & stones therof.
• Jas 5:1-5 : 1 Go to nowe ye riche men, weepe and howle on your wretchednesse that shall come vpon you. 2 Your riches is corrupt, your garmentes are motheaten: 3 Your golde and siluer is cankred, and the rust of them shalbe a witnesse agaynst you, and shall eate your fleshe as it were fyre. Ye haue heaped treasure together in your last dayes. 4 Beholde, the hire of labourers, which haue reaped downe your fieldes, which hire is of you kept backe by fraude, cryeth: and the cryes of them which haue reaped, are entred into the eares of the Lorde Sabaoth. 5 Ye haue liued in pleasure on the earth, and ben wanton: Ye haue nourisshed your heartes, as in a day of slaughter.
• Gen 13:2 : 2 And Abram was very ryche in cattell, in siluer, and in golde.
• Gen 14:23 : 23 That I wyll not take of all that is thyne so muche as a threede or shoe latchet, lest thou shouldest saye, I haue made Abram ryche:
• Josh 6:18 : 18 And in any wyse be ye ware of the accursed thinges, lest ye make your selues accursed, & take of the accursed thynges, and make the hoast of Israel accursed, and trouble it.
• Josh 7:1-9 : 1 But yet the chyldren of Israel trespassed in ye forbydden thyng: for Achan ye sonne of Charmi, the sonne of Zabdi, ye sonne of Zareth, of the tribe of Iuda, toke of the forbydden thyng: And the wrath of the Lorde waxed hot against the chyldren of Israel. 2 And Iosuah sent men from Iericho to Ai, which is besyde Bethauen, on the east syde of Bethel, and spake vnto them, saying: Get you vp, and viewe the countrey. And the men went vp, & viewed Ai, 3 And returned to Iosuah, and sayde vnto him, Let not all the people go vp: but let as it were two or three thousande men go vp, and smyte Ai: and make not all the people to labour thyther, for they are but fewe. 4 And so there went vp thyther of the people about a three thousande men, and they fled before the men of Ai. 5 And the men of Ai smote of them vpon a thirtie and sixe men: for they chased them from before the gate euen vnto Sebarim, and smote them in the goyng downe: Wherfore the heartes of the people for feare melted away lyke water. 6 And Iosuah rent his clothes, & fell to the earth vpo his face before the arke of the Lorde vntill the euentide, he and the elders of Israel, and put earth vpon their heades. 7 And Iosuah sayde: Alas, O Lorde God, wherfore hast thou brought this people ouer Iordane, to deliuer vs into the hande of the Amorites, & to destroye vs? Would to God we had ben content, and dwelt on the other side Iordane. 8 Oh Lorde what shall I say, when Israel turneth their backes before their enemies? 9 Surely the Chanaanites, and all the inhabitauntes of the lande shal heare of it, and shall conspire against vs, and destroy the name of vs out of the worlde: And what wilt thou do vnto thy mightie name? 10 And the Lorde sayde vnto Iosuah: Get thee vp, wherfore liest thou thus vpon thy face? 11 Israel hath sinned, and they haue transgressed myne appointment which I commaunded them: for they haue taken of the excommunicate thinges, and haue also stolen, and dissembled also, & put them vnto their owne stuffe. 12 And therfore is it that the children of Israel can not stande before their enemies, but shal turne their backes before their enemies, because they be excommunicate: Neither will I be with you any more, except ye destroy the excommunicate from among you. 13 Up therfore and sanctifie the people, and say: Sanctifie your selues against to morowe, for so sayde the Lorde God of Israel, there is a dampned thyng among you, O Israel: and therfore ye cannot stande against your enemies, vntyll ye haue put the dampned thing from among you. 14 To morowe morning therfore ye shalbe brought according to your tribes: And the tribe which the Lorde taketh, shal come according to the kinredes therof: And the kinred which the Lorde shall finde giltie, shall come by housholdes: And the housholde which the Lorde shal finde faultie, shall come ma by man. 15 And he that is founde with the accursed thing, shalbe burnt with fire, he, and all that he hath, because he hath transgressed the couenaunt of the Lord, and wrought follie in Israel. 16 And so Iosuah rose vp early in the morning, and brought Israel by their tribes, & the tribe of Iuda was caught. 17 And he brought the kinredes of Iuda, and toke the kinred of the Zarehites: And he brought the kinred of the Zarehites man by ma, & Zabdi was caught. 18 And he brought his housholde man by man, & Achan the sonne of Charmi, the sone of Zabdi, ye sonne of Zared of the tribe of Iuda, was caught. 19 And Iosuah sayde vnto Achan: My sonne, I beseche thee geue glorie to the Lorde God of Israel, and make confession vnto him, and shewe me what thou hast done, hyde it not from me. 20 And Achan auswered Iosuah, & sayd: Of a trueth I haue sinned against the Lorde God of Israel, and thus & thus haue I done. 21 I sawe among the spoyles a goodly babilonishe garment, and two hundred sicles of siluer, and a tonge of golde of fiftie sicles wayghte, and I coueted them, and toke them: and beholde they lye hyd in the earth in the middest of my tent, and the siluer is ther vnder. 22 And so Iosuah sent messegers: which whe they ranne vnto his tent, beholde they were hyd in his tent, and the siluer ther vnder. 23 Therfore they toke them out of the middest of his tent, and brought them vnto Iosuah, and vnto all the children of Israel, and layed them out before the Lorde. 24 And Iosuah toke Achan the sonne of Zareth, and the siluer, and the garmet, and the tonge of gold, and his sonnes, and his daughters, & his oxen, and his asses, his sheepe, his tent, and al that he had: and al Israel with him brought them vnto the valley of Achor. 25 And Iosuah sayde: In as much as thou hast troubled vs, the Lorde shall trouble thee this day. And all Israel stoned hym with stones, and burned them with fire, and ouerwhelmed them with stones. 26 And they cast vpon hym a great heape of stones vnto this day: And so the Lord turned from the wrath of his indignation. And the name of the place is called the valley of Achor vnto this day.
• 1 Sam 2:7-8 : 7 The Lord maketh poore, and maketh ryche, bringeth lowe, and heaueth vp on hye. 8 He rayseth vp the poore out of the dust, and lyfteth vp the beggar from the dounghyll, to set them among princes, and to make them inherite the seate of glory: For the pyllers of the earth are the lordes, and he hath set the worlde vpon them.
• 1 Kgs 21:19 : 19 And therfore shalt thou say vnto him, thus sayth the Lorde: Hast thou killed & also gotten possession? And thou shalt speake vnto him, saying, thus sayth the Lord: In the place were dogges licked the blood of Naboth, shall dogges licke euen thy blood also.
• 2 Kgs 5:26-27 : 26 But he saide vnto him: went not myne heart with thee when the man turned againe from his charet to meete thee? Is it now a tyme to receaue money, to receaue garmentes, olyue trees, vnieyardes, sheepe, and oxen, men seruauntes, and mayde seruauntes. 27 The leprosie therefore of Naaman shal cleaue vnto thee, and vnto thy seede for euer. And he went out from his presence a leper as white as snowe.
• Job 27:8-9 : 8 For what hope hath the hypocrite though he haue great good, if God take away his soule? 9 Will God heare his crye, when trouble commeth vpon him? 10 Hath he such pleasure and delite in the almightie, that he dare alway call vpon God? 11 I wil teache you in the name of God, and the thing of the almightie will I not kepe from you. 12 Behold, all ye your selues haue seene it, why then do ye thus vanishe in vanitie? 13 Saying: This is the portion that the wicked haue of God, and the heritage that tyrauntes shall receaue of the almightie. 14 If he get many children, they shall perishe with the sworde, and his posteritie shall haue scarcenesse of bread. 15 His remnaunt shalbe buried in death, and his widowes shall not weepe. 16 Though he heape vp siluer as the dust, and prepare rayment as the clay: 17 He may well prepare it, but the godly shall put it on, and the innocent shall deale out the money. 18 He buyldeth his house as the moth, & as a booth that the watchman maketh. 19 When the riche man sleepeth, he shall not be gathered to his fathers, they opened their eyes, and he was gone. 20 Terrour taketh holde vpon hym as a water fludde, and the tempest stealeth him away in the night season. 21 A vehement east winde caryeth him hence, and he departeth: a storme hurleth him out of his place. 22 God shal cast vpon him, and not spare, though he woulde fayne flee out of his hande. 23 Then clap men their handes at hym, and hisse at him out of his place.
• Deut 8:17-18 : 17 Lest thou shouldest say in thine heart, my power and the myght of myne owne hande hath prepared me this aboundaunce: 18 But remember the Lorde thy God, for it is he whiche geueth thee power to get substaunce, for to make good the promise whiche he sware vnto thy fathers, as appeareth this day.
• Prov 28:22 : 22 He that wyll be riche all to soone, hath an euyll eye: and considereth not that pouertie shall come vpon hym.