Proverbs 22:1 (BSB)
A good name is more desirable than great riches; favor is better than silver and gold.
From Proverbs 22. Also in the ESV.
Commentary on Proverbs 22:1
- Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Proverbs 22:1: A [good] name [is] rather to be chosen than great riches, [and] loving favour rather than silver and gold. (a) Which comes by well doing.
- Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 22:1: Pro 22:1 1 A good name has the preference above great riches; For more than silver and gold is grace. The proverb is constructed chiastically; the commencing word נבחר (cf. Pro 21:3), and the concluding word טוב, are the parallel predicates; rightly, none of the old translators have been misled to take together חן טוב, after the analogy of שׂכל טוב, Pro 3:14; Pro 13:15.