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Proverbs 11:4

Money and wealthJusticeJudgment

2 When pride cometh, then cometh shame: but with the lowly is wisdom.

3 The integrity of the upright shall guide them: but the perverseness of transgressors shall destroy them.

Riches profit not in the day of wrath: but righteousness delivereth from death.

5 The righteousness of the perfect shall direct his way: but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.

6 The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them: but transgressors shall be taken in their own naughtiness.

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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)

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Cross references

  • Zephaniah 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.

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  • Proverbs 10:2

    Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: but righteousness delivereth from death.

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  • Genesis 7:1

    And the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.

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  • Ezekiel 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.

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  • 1 Timothy 4:8

    For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.

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  • Psalms 49:6–8

    They that trust in their wealth, and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches;

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  • Matthew 16:26

    For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?

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  • Luke 12:20

    But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided?

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