Psalms 62:10
8 Trust in Him at all times, O people; pour out your hearts before Him. God is our refuge. Selah
9 Lowborn men are but a vapor, the exalted but a lie. Weighed on the scale, they go up; together they are but a vapor.
Place no trust in extortion, or false hope in stolen goods. If your riches increase, do not set your heart upon them.
11 God has spoken once; I have heard this twice: that power belongs to God,
12 and loving devotion to You, O Lord. For You will repay each man according to his deeds.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Place no trust in extortion, or false hope in stolen goods. If your riches increase, do not set your heart upon them.
- KJV
- Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery: if riches increase, set not your heart upon them.
- WEB
- Don’t trust in oppression. Don’t become vain in robbery. If riches increase, don’t set your heart on them.
- ASV
- Trust not in oppression, And become not vain in robbery: If riches increase, set not your heart [thereon].
- DARBY
- Put not confidence in oppression, and become not vain in robbery; if wealth increase, set not your heart upon it.
- BLB
- You should⁺ not trust in oppression, and do not be vain in robbery; [on] wealth when it increases you⁺ should not set the heart.
- ÅB
- Stol ikke på vold, og sett ikke fåfengt håp til røvet gods! Når rikdommen vokser, så akt ikke på det!
- OTB
- Stol ikke på undertrykkelse,
Og sett ikke forgjeves håp til ran;
Om rikdom øker, sett ikke deres hjerte til det. - B1930
- Stol ikke på vold, og sett ikke fåfengt håp til røvet gods! Når rikdommen vokser, så akt ikke på det!
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
1 Timothy 6:17
Instruct those who are rich in the present age not to be conceited and not to put their hope in the uncertainty of wealth, but in God, who richly provides all things for us to enjoy.
Read in contextPsalms 52:7
“Look at the man who did not make God his refuge, but trusted in the abundance of his wealth and strengthened himself by destruction.”
Read in contextJeremiah 17:11
Like a partridge hatching eggs it did not lay is the man who makes a fortune unjustly. In the middle of his days his riches will desert him, and in the end he will be the fool.”
Read in context1 Timothy 6:10
For the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil. By craving it, some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many sorrows.
Read in contextJob 31:24–25
If I have put my trust in gold or called pure gold my security,
Read in contextIsaiah 61:8
For I, the LORD, love justice; I hate robbery and iniquity; in My faithfulness I will give them their recompense and make an everlasting covenant with them.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 6:10–12
And when the LORD your God brings you into the land He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, that He would give you—a land with great and splendid cities that you did not build,
Read in contextJob 20:19
For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor; he has seized houses he did not build.
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