Proverbs 22:4 (BSB)

The rewards of humility and the fear of the LORD are wealth and honor and life.

From Proverbs 22. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 22:4

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 22:4: See here, 1. Wherein religion does very much consist - in humility and the fear of the Lord; that is, walking humbly with God. We must so reverence God's majesty and authority as to submit with all humility to the commands of his word and the disposals of his providence. We must have such low thoughts of ourselves as to behave humbly towards God and man.
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 22:4: By humility and the fear of the Lord,.... Some render it, "the reward of humility, which is the fear of the Lord" (r); so the Targum; an humble man is blessed with it. Jarchi's note is, "because of humility, the fear of the Lord comes;'' humility leads on to the fear of the Lord; he that behaves humbly towards man comes at length to fear...
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 22:4: humility and the fear of the Lord--are in apposition; one produces the other. On the results, compare Pro 3:16; Pro 8:18.
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 22:4: Pro 22:4 4 The reward of humility is the fear of Jahve, Is riches, and honour, and life. As ענוה־צדק, Psa 45:5, is understood of the two virtues, meekness and righteousness, so here the three Göttingen divines (Ewald, Bertheau, and Elster), as also Dunasch, see in 'ענוה יראת ה an asyndeton; the poet would then have omitted vav, because instead of the copulative connection he...