Proverbs 22:4 - Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

By humility Hebrew, עקב ענוה, because of humility; or, as some render the expression, the reward of humility, that reward which God has graciously promised, and will confer on humility, which is a grace of great price in his eyes, Isaiah 57:15; James 4:6; and the fear of the Lord By which he distinguishes true and Christian humility from counterfeit and merely moral humility: for the former arises from a deep sense of God's greatness, purity, and perfection, compared with our meanness, impurity, and manifold imperfections, whereas this latter is quite of another nature, and proceeds from other sources; are riches, and honour, and life The comforts of this life, and the happiness of the next, both which are promised to godliness: see on Proverbs 15:33.