Proverbes 10:16

Louis Segond

L'oeuvre du juste est pour la vie, Le gain du méchant est pour le péché.

Parallel Translations

La Bible David Martin (1744)
L'œuvre du juste tend à la vie; mais le rapport du méchant tend au péché.

La Bible Ostervald (1996)
L'œuvre du juste conduit à la vie; mais le fruit du méchant est le péché.

Darby's French Translation
L'oeuvre du juste est pour la vie, le revenu du méchant est pour le péché.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

labour: Proverbs 11:30, Isaiah 3:10, Isaiah 3:11, John 6:27, 1 Corinthians 15:58, Galatians 6:7-9, Hebrews 6:10

the fruit: Matthew 7:17, Matthew 7:18, Matthew 12:33, Matthew 12:34, Matthew 15:19, Romans 6:23, 2 Timothy 2:17, 2 Timothy 2:18, 2 Timothy 3:13

Reciprocal: Proverbs 11:19 - righteousness Proverbs 12:28 - General Philippians 2:12 - work

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The labour of the righteous [tendeth] to life,.... To natural life, and the support of it; all that he labours for is to get a livelihood for himself and family; that is all he desires, nor does he seek great things for himself: or to spiritual life; so his spiritual exercises in praying, reading, and hearing the word, and waiting upon ordinances, have a tendency to promote and maintain a spiritual life in him: or to eternal life; not that the works of a righteous man (so the Targum, Septuagint, and Arabic versions, render it in the plural number) are meritorious of eternal life; for life and righteousness are not to be had by the works of men, but by the grace of God; yet, as the righteous man labours for the meat which endures to everlasting life, given by the Son of God, his labour may be said to tend to life eternal, John 6:27;

the fruit of the wicked to sin; whatever he enjoys, whether got by labour; though the word seems purposely omitted, as some observe, to signify that is not intended; or whether left him as an inheritance; or whatever way acquired, lawfully or unlawfully; all his revenues and riches, the increase of his substance and fields, are all used to sinful purposes, to pride, luxury, and wantonness; and so tend to death, even death eternal, the just wages of sin.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

A warning against the conclusion to seek wealth first of all, which men of lower natures might draw from Proverbs 10:15.

“Quaerenda pecunia primum est;

Virtus post nummos?”

Horace, Ephesians 1:0. i. 53.

Such an inference is met by the experience, that while wealth gotten by honest industry is not only, like inherited riches a defense, but also a blessing, the seeming profit (rather than “fruit”) of the wicked tends to further sin 1 Timothy 6:10, and so to punishment. Compare Romans 6:21.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 10:16. The labour of the righteous — The good man labours that he may be able to support life; this is his first object: and then to have something to divide with the poor; this is his next object.

The fruit of the wicked to sin. — This man lives to eat and drink, and his property he spends in riot and excess. God's blessings are cursed to him.