Proverbs 10:2
1 The proverbs of Solomon: A wise son brings joy to his father, but a foolish son grief to his mother.
Ill-gotten treasures profit nothing, but righteousness brings deliverance from death.
3 The LORD does not let the righteous go hungry, but He denies the craving of the wicked.
4 Idle hands make one poor, but diligent hands bring wealth.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
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- BSB
- Ill-gotten treasures profit nothing, but righteousness brings deliverance from death.
- KJV
- Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: but righteousness delivereth from death.
- WEB
- Treasures of wickedness profit nothing, but righteousness delivers from death.
- ASV
- Treasures of wickedness profit nothing; But righteousness delivereth from death.
- DARBY
- Treasures of wickedness profit nothing; but righteousness delivereth from death.
- BLB
- The treasures of wickedness will not bring gain, and righteousness delivers from death.
- ÅB
- Ugudelighets skatter gagner ikke, men rettferdighet frir fra døden.
- OTB
- Urettferdig vinning varer ikke, men rettferdighet redder fra døden.
- B1930
- Ugudelighets skatter gagner ikke, men rettferdighet frir fra døden.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Proverbs 11:4
Riches are worthless in the day of wrath, but righteousness brings deliverance from death.
Read in contextProverbs 12:28
There is life in the path of righteousness, but another path leads to death.
Read in contextProverbs 21:6
Making a fortune by a lying tongue is a vanishing mist, a deadly pursuit.
Read in contextPsalms 49:6–10
They trust in their wealth and boast in their great riches.
Read in contextRomans 5:21
so that, just as sin reigned in death, so also grace might reign through righteousness to bring eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.
Read in contextZephaniah 1:18
Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to deliver them on the Day of the LORD’s wrath. The whole earth will be consumed by the fire of His jealousy.” For indeed, He will make a sudden end of all who dwell on the earth.
Read in contextEzekiel 7:19
They will throw their silver into the streets, and their gold will seem unclean. Their silver and gold cannot save them in the day of the wrath of the LORD. They cannot satisfy their appetites or fill their stomachs with wealth, for it became the stumbling block that brought their iniquity.
Read in contextIsaiah 10:2–3
to deprive the poor of fair treatment and withhold justice from the oppressed of My people, to make widows their prey and orphans their plunder.
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