Wouldn’t you like whatever you did to prosper?  You can have this today.  I am not talking about wishful thinking or mythological figures and circumstances like King Midas, where everything he touched turned to gold.  

God promises that the righteous person who walks with Him and meditates on His word day and night will prosper.   The word prosper in Hebrew is “saleah”, and it means to make progress, succeed

“That person is like a tree planted by streams of water, which yields its fruit in season and whose leaf does not wither— whatever they do prospers.”  Psalm 1:3ot preposterous