Psalm 127:5 Blessed is the man whose quiver is full of them. They will not be put to shame when they contend with their opponents in court.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
Blessed is the man whose quiver is full of them. They will not be put to shame when they contend with their opponents in court.

English Standard Version
Blessed is the man who fills his quiver with them! He shall not be put to shame when he speaks with his enemies in the gate.

New American Standard Bible
How blessed is the man whose quiver is full of them; They will not be ashamed When they speak with their enemies in the gate.

King James Bible
Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them: they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Happy is the man who has filled his quiver with them. Such men will never be put to shame when they speak with their enemies at the city gate.

International Standard Version
How blessed is the man whose quiver is full of them! He will not be ashamed as they confront their enemies at the city gate.

American Standard Version
Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them: They shall not be put to shame, When they speak with their enemies in the gate.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Blessed is the man that hath filled the desire with them; he shall not be confounded when he shall speak to his enemies in the gate.

Darby Bible Translation
Happy is the man that hath filled his quiver with them. They shall not be ashamed when they speak with enemies in the gate.

Young's Literal Translation
O the happiness of the man Who hath filled his quiver with them, They are not ashamed, For they speak with enemies in the gate!

Cross References

Genesis 1:28
And God blessed them, and God said to them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.

Genesis 34:20
And Hamor and Shechem his son came to the gate of their city, and communed with the men of their city, saying,

Psalm 128:2
For you shall eat the labor of your hands: happy shall you be, and it shall be well with you.

Psalm 128:3
Your wife shall be as a fruitful vine by the sides of your house: your children like olive plants round about your table.

Proverbs 24:7
Wisdom is too high for a fool: he opens not his mouth in the gate.

Proverbs 27:11
My son, be wise, and make my heart glad, that I may answer him that reproaches me.

Isaiah 29:21
That make a man an offender for a word, and lay a snare for him that reproves in the gate, and turn aside the just for a thing of nothing.

Amos 5:12
For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

127:1-5 The value of the Divine blessing. - Let us always look to God's providence. In all the affairs and business of a family we must depend upon his blessing. 1. For raising a family. If God be not acknowledged, we have no reason to expect his blessing; and the best-laid plans fail, unless he crowns them with success. 2. For the safety of a family or a city. Except the Lord keep the city, the watchmen, though they neither slumber nor sleep, wake but in vain; mischief may break out, which even early discoveries may not be able to prevent. 3. For enriching a family. Some are so eager upon the world, that they are continually full of care, which makes their comforts bitter, and their lives a burden. All this is to get money; but all in vain, except God prosper them: while those who love the Lord, using due diligence in their lawful callings, and casting all their care upon him, have needful success, without uneasiness or vexation. Our care must be to keep ourselves in the love of God; then we may be easy, whether we have little or much of this world. But we must use the proper means very diligently. Children are God's gifts, a heritage, and a reward; and are to be accounted blessings, and not burdens: he who sends mouths, will send meat, if we trust in him. They are a great support and defence to a family. Children who are young, may be directed aright to the mark, God's glory, and the service of their generation; but when they are gone into the world, they are arrows out of the hand, it is too late to direct them then. But these arrows in the hand too often prove arrows in the heart, a grief to godly parents. Yet, if trained according to God's word, they generally prove the best defence in declining years, remembering their obligations to their parents, and taking care of them in old age. All earthly comforts are uncertain, but the Lord will assuredly comfort and bless those who serve him; and those who seek the conversion of sinners, will find that their spiritual children are their joy and crown in the day of Jesus Christ.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

5. adversaries in the gate—or place of public business (compare Job 5:4; Ps 69:12).