Proverbs 11:25 (BSB)

A generous soul will prosper, and he who refreshes others will himself be refreshed.

From Proverbs 11. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 11:25

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 11:25: So backward we are to works of charity, and so ready to think that giving undoes us, that we need to have it very much pressed upon us how much it is for our own advantage to do good to others, as before, Pro 11:17. 1.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 11:25: The liberal soul shall be made fat,.... Or, "the soul of blessing" (c): that is, as the Vulgate Latin version renders it, "the soul which blesseth"; not that merely prays for a blessing upon others, and wishes them well, and gives them good words; but bestows blessings on them, gives good things unto them liberally, cheerfully, and plentifully; and so is a blessing to the...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 11:25: liberal soul--(Compare Margin). made fat--prospers (Pro 28:25; Deu 32:15; Luk 6:38). watereth . . . watered--a common figure for blessing.
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 11:25: Pro 11:25 25 A liberal soul [soul of blessing] is made fat, And he that watereth others is also watered. A synonymous distich (vid., p. 7). A soul of blessing is one from whom blessings go out to others, who is even a blessing to all with whom he comes into fellowship; בּרצה denotes also particularly the gifts of love, 1Sa 25:27, בּרך denotes, if the Arab.