Deuteronomy 8:18

8:18 You must remember the Lord your God, for he is the one who gives ability to get wealth; if you do this he will confirm his covenant that he made by oath to your ancestors, ¹  even as he has to this day.

Deuteronomy 8:1

The Lord’s Provision in the Desert

8:1 You must keep carefully all these commandments ²  I am giving ³  you today so that you may live, increase in number, ⁴  and go in and occupy the land that the Lord promised to your ancestors. ⁵ 

Deuteronomy 2:7-8

2:7 All along the way I, the Lord your God, ⁶  have blessed your every effort. ⁷  I have ⁸  been attentive to ⁹  your travels through this great wasteland. These forty years I have ¹⁰  been with you; you have lacked for nothing.’”

2:8 So we turned away from our relatives ¹¹  the descendants of Esau, the inhabitants of Seir, turning from the desert route, ¹²  from Elat ¹³  and Ezion Geber, ¹⁴  and traveling the way of the Moab wastelands.

Job 42:10

42:10 So the Lord ¹⁵  restored what Job had lost ¹⁶  after he prayed for his friends, ¹⁷  and the Lord doubled ¹⁸  all that had belonged to Job.

Psalms 75:6-7

75:6 For victory does not come from the east or west,

or from the wilderness. ¹⁹ 

75:7 For God is the judge! ²⁰ 

He brings one down and exalts another. ²¹ 

Psalms 113:7-8

113:7 He raises the poor from the dirt,

and lifts up the needy from the garbage pile, ²² 

113:8 that he might seat him with princes,

with the princes of his people.

Proverbs 8:18

8:18 Riches and honor are with me,

long-lasting wealth and righteousness.

Proverbs 10:22

10:22 The blessing ²³  from the Lord ²⁴  makes a person rich, ²⁵ 

and he adds no sorrow ²⁶  to ²⁷  it.

Ecclesiastes 5:19

5:19 To every man whom God has given wealth, and possessions,

he has also given him the ability ²⁸ 

to eat from them, to receive his reward and to find enjoyment in his toil;

these things ²⁹  are the gift of God.

Luke 1:51-53

1:51 He has demonstrated power ³⁰  with his arm; he has scattered those whose pride wells up from the sheer arrogance ³¹  of their hearts.

1:52 He has brought down the mighty ³²  from their thrones, and has lifted up those of lowly position; ³³ 

1:53 he has filled the hungry with good things, ³⁴  and has sent the rich away empty. ³⁵ 

Romans 11:35-36

11:35 Or who has first given to God, ³⁶ 

that God ³⁷  needs to repay him? ³⁸ 

11:36 For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be glory forever! Amen.

[8:18]  ¹ tc Smr and Lucian add “Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob,” the standard way of rendering this almost stereotypical formula (cf. Deut 1:8; 6:10; 9:5, 27; 29:13; 30:20; 34:4). The MT’s harder reading presumptively argues for its originality, however.

[8:1]  ² tn The singular term (מִצְוָה, mitsvah) includes the whole corpus of covenant stipulations, certainly the book of Deuteronomy at least (cf. Deut 5:28; 6:1, 25; 7:11; 11:8, 22; 15:5; 17:20; 19:9; 27:1; 30:11; 31:5). The plural (מִצְוֹת, mitsot) refers to individual stipulations (as in vv. 2, 6).

[8:1]  ³ tn Heb “commanding” (so NASB). For stylistic reasons, to avoid redundancy, “giving” has been used in the translation (likewise in v. 11).

[8:1]  ⁴ tn Heb “multiply” (so KJV, NASB, NLT); NIV, NRSV “increase.”

[8:1]  ⁵ tn Heb “fathers” (also in vv. 16, 18).

[2:7]  ⁶ tn The Hebrew text does not have the first person pronoun; it has been supplied for purposes of English style (the Lord is speaking here).

[2:7]  ⁷ tn Heb “all the work of your hands.”

[2:7]  ⁸ tn Heb “he has.” This has been converted to first person in the translation in keeping with English style.

[2:7]  ⁹ tn Heb “known” (so ASV, NASB); NAB “been concerned about.”

[2:7]  ¹⁰ tn Heb “the Lord your God has.” This has been replaced in the translation by the first person pronoun (“I”) in keeping with English style.

[2:8]  ¹¹ tn Or “brothers”; NRSV “our kin.”

[2:8]  ¹² tn Heb “the way of the Arabah” (so ASV); NASB, NIV “the Arabah road.”

[2:8]  ¹³ sn Elat was a port city at the head of the eastern arm of the Red Sea, that is, the Gulf of Aqaba (or Gulf of Eilat). Solomon (1 Kgs 9:28), Uzziah (2 Kgs 14:22), and Ahaz (2 Kgs 16:5-6) used it as a port but eventually it became permanently part of Edom. It may be what is known today as Tell el-Kheleifeh. Modern Eilat is located further west along the northern coast. See G. Pratico, “Nelson Glueck’s 1938-1940 Excavations at Tell el-Kheleifeh: A Reappraisal,” BASOR 259 (1985): 1-32.

[2:8]  ¹⁴ sn Ezion Geber. A place near the Gulf of Aqaba, Ezion-geber must be distinguished from Elat (cf. 1 Kgs 9:26-28; 2 Chr 8:17-18). It was, however, also a port city (1 Kgs 22:48-49). It may be the same as the modern site Gezirat al-Fauran, 15 mi (24 km) south-southwest from Tell el-Kheleifah.

[42:10]  ¹⁵ tn The paragraph begins with the disjunctive vav, “Now as for the Lord, he….”

[42:10]  ¹⁶ sn The expression here is interesting: “he returned the captivity of Job,” a clause used elsewhere in the Bible of Israel (see e.g., Ps 126). Here it must mean “the fortunes of Job,” i.e., what he had lost. There is a good deal of literature on this; for example, see R. Borger, “Zu sub sb(i)t,” ZAW 25 (1954): 315-16; and E. Baumann, ZAW 6 (1929): 17ff.

[42:10]  ¹⁷ tn This is a temporal clause, using the infinitive construct with the subject genitive suffix. By this it seems that this act of Job was also something of a prerequisite for restoration – to pray for them.

[42:10]  ¹⁸ tn The construction uses the verb “and he added” with the word “repeat” (or “twice”).

[75:6]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “for not from the east or from the west, and not from the wilderness of the mountains.” If one follows this reading the sentence is elliptical. One must supply “does help come,” or some comparable statement. However, it is possible to take הָרִים (harim) as a Hiphil infinitive from רוּם (rum), the same verb used in vv. 4-5 of “lifting up” a horn. In this case one may translate the form as “victory.” In this case the point is that victory does not come from alliances with other nations.

[75:7]  ²⁰ tn Or “judges.”

[75:7]  ²¹ tn The imperfects here emphasize the generalizing nature of the statement.

[113:7]  ²² sn The language of v. 7 is almost identical to that of 1 Sam 2:8.

[10:22]  ²³ tn The term בְּרָכָּה (bÿrakhah, “blessing”) refers to a gift, enrichment or endowment from the Lord.

[10:22]  ²⁴ tn Heb “of the Lord.” The term יְהוָה (yÿhvah, “the Lord”) functions here as a genitive of source.

[10:22]  ²⁵ tn Heb “makes rich” (so NASB); NAB “brings wealth.” The direct object “a person” does not appear in the Hebrew but is implied by the Hiphil verb; it is supplied in the translation.

[10:22]  ²⁶ tn Heb “toil.” The noun עֶצֶב (’etsev) has a basic two-fold range of meanings: (1) “toil; labor” which produces pain and sorrow, and (2) “pain; sorrow” which is the result of toil and labor (BDB 780 s.v.). This is the word used of the curse of “toil” in man’s labor (Gen 3:17) and the “pain” in the woman’s child-bearing (Gen 3:16). God’s blessing is pure and untarnished – it does not bring physical pain or emotional sorrow.

[10:22]  ²⁷ tn Heb “with.”

[5:19]  ²⁸ tn The syntax of this verse is difficult. The best approach is to view הִשְׁלִיטוֹ (hishlito, “he has given him the ability”) as governing the three following infinitives: לֶאֱכֹל (le’ekhol, “to eat”), וְלָשֵׂאת (vÿlase’t, “and to lift” = “to accept [or receive]”), and וְלִשְׂמֹחַ (vÿlismoakh, “and to rejoice”). This statement parallels 2:24-26 which states that no one can find enjoyment in life unless God gives him the ability to do so.

[5:19]  ²⁹ tn Heb “this.” The feminine singular demonstrative pronoun זֹה (zoh, “this”) refers back to all that preceded it in the verse (e.g., GKC 440-41 §135.p), that is, the ability to enjoy the fruit of one’s labor is the gift of God (e.g., Eccl 2:24-26). The phrase “these things” is used in the translation for clarity.

[1:51]  ³⁰ tn Or “shown strength,” “performed powerful deeds.” The verbs here switch to aorist tense through 1:55. This is how God will act in general for his people as they look to his ultimate deliverance.

[1:51]  ³¹ tn Grk “in the imaginations of their hearts.” The psalm rebukes the arrogance of the proud, who think that power is their sovereign right. Here διανοίᾳ (dianoia) can be understood as a dative of sphere or reference/respect.

[1:52]  ³² tn Or “rulers.”

[1:52]  ³³ tn Or “those of humble position”

[1:53]  ³⁴ sn Good things refers not merely to material blessings, but blessings that come from knowing God.

[1:53]  ³⁵ sn Another fundamental contrast of Luke’s is between the hungry and the rich (Luke 6:20-26).

[11:35]  ³⁶ tn Grk “him”; the referent (God) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[11:35]  ³⁷ tn Grk “he”; the referent (God) has been specified in the translation for clarity.

[11:35]  ³⁸ sn A quotation from Job 41:11.