Psalms 128:2

“For thou shall eat the labour of thine hands, etc.] That is, thou that fearest the Lord, and walkest in his ways. It is an apostrophe, or address to such, even to everyone of them; instancing in one part of the blessedness that belongs to them, enjoyment of what their hands have laboured for; which may be understood both in a literal and spiritual sense: man must labour and get his bread with the sweat of his brow; he that will not work should not eat, he that does should; and a good man may have a comfortable enjoyment of the good of his labour; than which, as to temporal blessings, there is nothing better under the sun, (<210518>Ecclesiastes 5:18); and, in a spiritual sense, good men…”

“For thou shalt eat the labor of thine hands - Thou shalt enjoy the avails of thy labor; thou shalt be secure in thy rights. See the notes at Isaiah 3:10. This is a general promise respecting the prosperity which religion affords. If all people were truly religious, this would be universal, so far as man is concerned. Property would be secure; and, except so far as abundant harvests might be prevented by the direct providence of God - by blight, and mildew, and storms, and drought - all people would enjoy undisturbed the avails of their labor. Slavery, whereby one man is compelled to labor for another, would come to an end; every one who is now a slave would “eat the labor of his own hands;”…”

“thou shalt eat: Gen 3:19; Deu 28:4, Deu 28:11, Deu 28:39, Deu 28:51; Jdg 6:3-6; Ecc 5:18, Ecc 5:19; Isa 62:8; Isa 65:13, Isa 65:21-23 and it shall: Ecc 8:12; Isa 3:10; Jer 22:15; Co1 15:58; Eph 6:3 Psalms 128:3”