Proverbs 22:4

By humility [and] the fear of the Lord,.... Some render it, "the reward of humility, which [is] the fear of the Lord" ; so the Targum; an humble man is blessed with it. Jarchi's note is,"because of humility, the fear of the Lord comes;''humility leads on to the fear of the Lord; he that behaves humbly towards man comes at length to fear the Lord, and be truly religious: though these are rather to be considered as the graces of the Spirit of God, which go together where there is one, there is the other; he that is humbled under a sense of sin, and his own unworthiness, fears the Lord; and he that fears the Lord, and his goodness, will walk humbly before him; they both flow from the grace of God, are very ornamental, and attended with the following happy consequences;[are] riches, and honour, and life; spiritual riches, the riches of grace and glory; honour with God and men now, and everlasting life in the world to come.