Thus shall the man be blessed who fears the Lord. This summary statement returns to the beatitude formula, confirming that all the foregoing blessings (fruitful labor, productive spouse, thriving children) flow from single source: fear of the Lord. The repetition and syntactic parallelism with verse 1 create a frame, suggesting that domestic prosperity and social standing are not separate from but intrinsic expressions of covenant faithfulness. Blessing becomes not external reward arbitrarily granted but the natural fruit of proper alignment with the Lord. This theology insists that righteousness and flourishing are fundamentally connected, even if experience sometimes seems to contradict this.

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