SEV Biblia, Chapter 10:16
ΒΆ La obra del justo es para vida; mas el fruto del impío es para pecado.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Proverbs 10:16
Verse 16. The labour of the righteous ] The good man labours that he may be able to support life; this is his first object: and then to have something to divide with the poor; this is his next object. The fruit of the wicked to sin. ] This man lives to eat and drink, and his property he spends in riot and excess. God's blessings are cursed to him.
John Gill's Bible Commentary
Ver. 16. The labour of the righteous [tendeth] to life , etc.] To natural life, and the support of it; all that he labours for is to get a livelihood for himself and family; that is all he desires, nor does he seek great things for himself: or to spiritual life; so his spiritual exercises in praying, reading, and hearing the word, and waiting upon ordinances, have a tendency to promote and maintain a spiritual life in him: or to eternal life; not that the works of a righteous man (so the Targum, Septuagint, and Arabic versions, render it in the plural number) are meritorious of eternal life; for life and righteousness are not to be had by the works of men, but by the grace of God; yet, as the righteous man labours for the meat which endures to everlasting life, given by the Son of God, his labour may be said to tend to life eternal, ( John 6:27); the fruit of the wicked to sin ; whatever he enjoys, whether got by labour; though the word seems purposely omitted, as some observe, to signify that is not intended; or whether left him as an inheritance; or whatever way acquired, lawfully or unlawfully; all his revenues and riches, the increase of his substance and fields, are all used to sinful purposes, to pride, luxury, and wantonness; and so tend to death, even death eternal, the just wages of sin.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 16 - Perhaps a righteous man has no more than what he works hard for, but that labour tends to life.
Original Hebrew
פעלת 6468 צדיק 6662 לחיים 2416 תבואת 8393 רשׁע 7563 לחטאת׃ 2403
