Proverbs 27:18 (BSB)

Whoever tends a fig tree will eat its fruit, and he who looks after his master will be honored.

From Proverbs 27. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 27:18

• Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 27:18: This is designed to encourage diligence, faithfulness, and constancy, even in mean employments. Though the calling be laborious and despicable, yet those who keep to it will find there is something to be got by it. 1. Let not a poor gardener, who keeps the fig-tree, be discouraged; though it require constant care and attendance to nurse up fig-trees, and, when they have grown to...
• John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 27:18: Hell and destruction are never full,.... The grave, as the word used often signifies; and which may be called "destruction", because bodies laid in it are soon corrupted and destroyed; and though bodies are cast into it and devoured by it, it is ready for more; it is one of the four things which never have enough.
• Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 27:18: Diligence secures a reward, even for the humble servant.
• Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 27:18: Pro 27:18 The following three proverbs are connected with 17 in their similarity of form: - 18 Whosoever watcheth the fig-tree will enjoy its fruit; And he that hath regard to his master attaineth to honour. The first member is, as in Pro 27:17, only the means of contemplating the second; as faithful care of the tree has fruit for a reward, so faithful regard...