5 Happy is the man who has a good store of them; he will not be put to shame, but his cause will be supported by them against his haters.
My son, be wise and make my heart glad, so that I may give back an answer to him who puts me to shame.
Now his children have no safe place, and they are crushed before the judges, for no one takes up their cause.
And the Lord's blessing was greater on the end of Job's life than on its start: and so he came to have fourteen thousand sheep and goats, and six thousand camels, and two thousand oxen, and a thousand she-asses. And he had seven sons and three daughters. And he gave the first the name of Jemimah, the second Keziah, and the third Keren-happuch; And there were no women so beautiful as the daughters of Job in all the earth: and their father gave them a heritage among their brothers. And after this Job had a hundred and forty years of life, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, even four generations.
And Joseph saw Ephraim's children of the third generation: and the children of Machir, the son of Manasseh, came to birth on Joseph's knees.
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Commentary on Psalms 127 Matthew Henry Commentary
Psalm 127
This is a family-psalm, as divers before were state-poems and church-poems. It is entitled (as we read it) "for Solomon,' dedicated to him by his father. He having a house to build, a city to keep, and seed to raise up to his father, David directs him to look up to God, and to depend upon his providence, without which all his wisdom, care, and industry, would not serve. Some take it to have been penned by Solomon himself, and it may as well be read, "a song of Solomon,' who wrote a great many; and they compare it with the Ecclesiastes, the scope of both being the same, to show the vanity of worldly care and how necessary it is that we keep in favour with God. On him we must depend,
In singing this psalm we must have our eye up unto God for success in all our undertakings and a blessing upon all our comforts and enjoyments, because every creature is that to us which he makes it to be and no more.
A song of degrees for Solomon.
Psa 127:1-5
We are here taught to have a continual regard to the divine Providence in all the concerns of this life. Solomon was cried up for a wise man, and would be apt to lean to his own understanding and forecast, and therefore his father teaches him to look higher, and to take God along with him in his undertakings. He was to be a man of business, and therefore David instructed him how to manage his business under the direction of his religion. Parents, in teaching their children, should suit their exhortations to their condition and occasions. We must have an eye to God,