Proverbs 3:10

10 that thy storehouses may be completely filled with corn, and that thy presses may burst forth with wine.

Proverbs 3:10 Meaning and Commentary

Proverbs 3:10

So shall thy barns be filled with plenty
With plenty of corn; so that there will be a sufficient provision of bread for the eater for the ensuing year, and of seed for the sower when the time of sowing returns; so far should they be, it suggests, from being losers by honouring the Lord with their substance, that they should be gainers by it; instead of having less, should have abundantly more; and thy presses shall burst out with new wine;
not that they should really burst ^F17 for then the wine would be spilled, which would be a loss; but that they should be so full, that they should be ready to burst or run over: and so the Targum, and the Septuagint, Vulgate Latin, Syriac, and Arabic versions, render it, "and thy presses shall overflow with new wine". As the former clause denotes plenty of eatables, so this of drinkables; and both fulness of all sorts of provisions, promised to the liberal man; and may be an emblem of the large provisions of grace and glory, which the Lord has made for and bestows upon such that honour him.

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FOOTNOTES:

F17 A like figure see in Virgil. Georgic. l. 1. v. 49. "---ruperunt horrea messes".

Proverbs 3:10 In-Context

8 Then shall there be health to thy body, and good keeping to thy bones.

9 Honour the Lord with thy just labours, and give him the first of thy fruits of righteousness:

10 that thy storehouses may be completely filled with corn, and that thy presses may burst forth with wine.

11 son, despise not the chastening of the Lord; nor faint when thou art rebuked of him:

12 for whom the Lord loves, he rebukes, and scourges every son whom he receives.