Deuteronomy 4:40

4:40 Keep his statutes and commandments that I am setting forth ¹  today so that it may go well with you and your descendants and that you may enjoy longevity in the land that the Lord your God is about to give you as a permanent possession.

Deuteronomy 5:16

5:16 Honor ²  your father and your mother just as the Lord your God has commanded you to do, so that your days may be extended and that it may go well with you in the land that he ³  is about to give you.

Deuteronomy 5:33

5:33 Walk just as he ⁴  has commanded you so that you may live, that it may go well with you, and that you may live long ⁵  in the land you are going to possess.

Deuteronomy 22:7

22:7 You must be sure ⁶  to let the mother go, but you may take the young for yourself. Do this so that it may go well with you and you may have a long life.

Proverbs 3:1-2

Exhortations to Seek Wisdom and Walk with the Lord ⁷ 

3:1 My child, ⁸  do not forget my teaching,

but let your heart keep ⁹  my commandments,

3:2 for they will provide ¹⁰  a long and full life, ¹¹ 

and they will add well-being ¹²  to you.

Proverbs 3:16

3:16 Long life ¹³  is in her right hand;

in her left hand are riches and honor.

Proverbs 3:1

Exhortations to Seek Wisdom and Walk with the Lord ¹⁴ 

3:1 My child, ¹⁵  do not forget my teaching,

but let your heart keep ¹⁶  my commandments,

Proverbs 3:10-11

3:10 then your barns will be filled completely, ¹⁷ 

and your vats ¹⁸  will overflow ¹⁹  with new wine.

3:11 My child, do not despise discipline from the Lord, ²⁰ 

and do not loathe ²¹  his rebuke.

[4:40]  ¹ tn Heb “commanding” (so NRSV).

[5:16]  ² tn The imperative here means, literally, “regard as heavy” (כַּבֵּד, kabbed). The meaning is that great importance must be ascribed to parents by their children.

[5:16]  ³ tn Heb “the Lord your God.” See note on “He” in 5:3.

[5:33]  ⁴ tn Heb “the Lord your God.” The pronoun has been used in the translation for stylistic reasons to avoid redundancy.

[5:33]  ⁵ tn Heb “may prolong your days”; NAB “may have long life”; TEV “will continue to live.”

[22:7]  ⁶ tn The Hebrew text uses the infinitive absolute for emphasis, which the translation seeks to reflect with “be sure.”

[3:1]  ⁷ sn The chapter begins with an introductory exhortation (1-4), followed by an admonition to be faithful to the Lord (5-12). Wisdom is commended as the most valuable possession (13-18), essential to creation (19-20), and the way to a long and safe life (21-26). There then follows a warning to avoid unneighborliness (27-30) and emulating the wicked (31-35).

[3:1]  ⁸ tn Heb “my son” (likewise in vv. 11, 21).

[3:1]  ⁹ tn The verb יִצֹּר (yitsor) is a Qal jussive and the noun לִבֶּךָ (libbekha, “your heart”) functions as the subject: “let your heart keep my commandments.”

[3:2]  ¹⁰ tn The phrase “they will provide” does not appear in the Hebrew text, but are supplied in the translation for the sake of smoothness.

[3:2]  ¹¹ tn Heb “length of days and years of life” (so NASB, NRSV). The idiom “length of days” refers to a prolonged life and “years of life” signifies a long time full of life, a life worth living (T. T. Perowne, Proverbs, 51). The term “life” refers to earthly felicity combined with spiritual blessedness (BDB 313 s.v. חַיִּים).

[3:2]  ¹² tn The noun שָׁלוֹם (shalom, “peace”) here means “welfare, health, prosperity” (BDB 1022 s.v. 3). It can be used of physical health and personal well-being. It is the experience of positive blessing and freedom from negative harm and catastrophe.

[3:16]  ¹³ tn Heb “length of days” (so KJV, ASV).

[3:1]  ¹⁴ sn The chapter begins with an introductory exhortation (1-4), followed by an admonition to be faithful to the Lord (5-12). Wisdom is commended as the most valuable possession (13-18), essential to creation (19-20), and the way to a long and safe life (21-26). There then follows a warning to avoid unneighborliness (27-30) and emulating the wicked (31-35).

[3:1]  ¹⁵ tn Heb “my son” (likewise in vv. 11, 21).

[3:1]  ¹⁶ tn The verb יִצֹּר (yitsor) is a Qal jussive and the noun לִבֶּךָ (libbekha, “your heart”) functions as the subject: “let your heart keep my commandments.”

[3:10]  ¹⁷ tn Heb “with plenty” (so KJV, NASB, NRSV); NIV “to overflowing.” The noun שָׂבָע (sava’, “plenty; satiety”) functions as an adverbial accusative of manner or contents: “completely.”

[3:10]  ¹⁸ sn This pictures the process of pressing grapes in which the upper receptacle is filled with grapes and the lower one catches the juice. The harvest of grapes will be so plentiful that the lower vat will overflow with grape juice. The pictures in v. 10 are metonymies of effect for cause (= the great harvest that God will provide when they honor him).

[3:10]  ¹⁹ tn Heb “burst open.” The verb פָּרַץ (parats, “to burst open”) functions as hyperbole here to emphasize the fullness of the wine vats (BDB 829 s.v. 9).

[3:11]  ²⁰ tn Heb “the discipline of the Lord.”

[3:11]  ²¹ tn The verb קוּץ (quts) has a two-fold range of meaning: (1) “to feel a loathing; to abhor” and (2) “to feel a sickening dread” (BDB 880 s.v.). The parallelism with “do not despise” suggests the former nuance here. The common response to suffering is to loathe it; however, the righteous understand that it refines one’s moral character and that it is a means to the blessing.