Proverbs 10:2
1 The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother.
Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: but righteousness delivereth from death.
3 The LORD will not suffer the soul of the righteous to famish: but he casteth away the substance of the wicked.
4 He becometh poor that dealeth with a slack hand: but the hand of the diligent maketh rich.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- 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 profit not in the day of wrath: but righteousness delivereth from death.
Read in contextProverbs 12:28
In the way of righteousness is life; and in the pathway thereof there is no death.
Read in contextProverbs 21:6
The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is a vanity tossed to and fro of them that seek death.
Read in contextPsalms 49:6–10
They that trust in their wealth, and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches;
Read in contextRomans 5:21
That as sin hath reigned unto death, even so might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life by Jesus Christ our Lord.
Read in contextZephaniah 1:18
Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD’s wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.
Read in contextEzekiel 7:19
They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.
Read in contextIsaiah 10:2–3
To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!
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