For thou shalt eat the labour of thine hands: happy [shalt] thou [be], and [it shall be] well with thee.
Ver. 2. For thou shalt eat the labour of thine hands] That is, thou shalt reap and receive the sweet of thy sweat, whether it be of the brow or of the brain, according to the kind of thy calling. And although thou be forced to live by the labour of thine hands (whence man's life is called the life of his hands, Isa 57:10), yet that shall be no hindrance to thy happiness, but a furtherance of thine account.
Happy shalt thou be, and it shall be well with thee] The Chaldee thus expoundeth it, Happy thou in this world; and good shall it be unto thee in the world to come.