Proverbs 11:4
2 When pride comes, disgrace follows, but with humility comes wisdom.
3 The integrity of the upright guides them, but the perversity of the faithless destroys them.
Riches are worthless in the day of wrath, but righteousness brings deliverance from death.
5 The righteousness of the blameless directs their path, but the wicked fall by their own wickedness.
6 The righteousness of the upright delivers them, but the faithless are trapped by their own desires.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Riches are worthless in the day of wrath, but righteousness brings deliverance from death.
- KJV
- Riches profit not in the day of wrath: but righteousness delivereth from death.
- WEB
- Riches don’t profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death.
- ASV
- Riches profit not in the day of wrath; But righteousness delivereth from death.
- DARBY
- Wealth profiteth not in the day of wrath; but righteousness delivereth from death.
- BLB
- Wealth will not profit in the day of wrath, and righteousness delivers from death.
- ÅB
- Gods hjelper ikke på vredens dag, men rettferdighet frir fra døden.
- OTB
- Rikdom er nytteløs på vredens dag, men rettferdighet redder fra døden.
- B1930
- Gods hjelper ikke på vredens dag, men rettferdighet frir fra døden.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Zephaniah 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 contextProverbs 10:2
Ill-gotten treasures profit nothing, but righteousness brings deliverance from death.
Read in contextGenesis 7:1
Then the LORD said to Noah, “Go into the ark, you and all your family, because I have found you righteous in this generation.
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 context1 Timothy 4:8
For physical exercise is of limited value, but godliness is valuable in every way, holding promise for the present life and for the one to come.
Read in contextPsalms 49:6–8
They trust in their wealth and boast in their great riches.
Read in contextMatthew 16:26
What will it profit a man if he gains the whole world, yet forfeits his soul? Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul?
Read in contextLuke 12:20
But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life will be required of you. Then who will own what you have accumulated?’
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