Matthew Henry
Here,
faithfulto God and man shall be blessed of the Lord, and he
shall abound with blessingsof the upper and nether springs. Men shall praise him, and pray for him, and be ready to do him any kindness. He shall abound in doing good, and shall himself be a blessing to the place where he lives. Usefulness shall be the reward of faithfulness, and it is a good reward.
abound with blessings, for
he that makes haste to be rich, more haste than good speed,
shall not be innocent; and, if he be not, he shall not be blessed of God, but rather bring a curse upon what he has; nor, if he be not innocent, can he long be easy to himself; he shall not be accounted innocent by his neighbours, but shall have their ill will and ill word. He does not say that he
cannot be innocent, but there is all the probability in the world that he will not prove so:
He that hasteth with his feet sinneth, stumbleth, falleth.
Sed quae reverentia legum, quis metus, aut pudor, est unquam properantis avari?--
What reverence for law, what fear, what shame, was ever indicated by an avaricious man hasting to be rich?