“He that trusteth in his riches shall fall: but the righteous shall flourish as a branch.”
Proverbs 11:28
In the main verse, he makes it clear that the righteous man does not trust in his riches, even though he is expected to flourish as a branch anyway. The Bible had told us:
“Blessed is the man that walketh not in the counsel of the ungodly… But his delight is in the law of the LORD; and in his law doth he meditate day and night. And he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water…” (Psalms 1:1-3)
The righteous man, doesn’t spend time calculating his future and progress based on what he sees in his account or storehouse— (the man who does so is a fool: Luke 12:16-21)
Instead he spends his time fellowshipping with the word; his delight is always found in the word, that man would flourish as a branch despite what happens around him, he would remain alienated from the schemes of evil men:
“Blessed is the man that trusteth in the LORD, and whose hope the LORD is. For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.” Jeremiah 17:7-8
Let your delight be only and always God’s word: Psalms 37:4.
Bible Reading Plan: 1 cor 7 and 8