Psalms 62:10
8 Trust in him at all times; ye people, pour out your heart before him: God is a refuge for us. Selah.
9 Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity.
Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery: if riches increase, set not your heart upon them.
11 God hath spoken once; twice have I heard this; that power belongeth unto God.
12 Also unto thee, O Lord, belongeth mercy: for thou renderest to every man according to his work.
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
Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not highminded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy;
Read in contextPsalms 52:7
Lo, this is the man that made not God his strength; but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness.
Read in contextJeremiah 17:11
As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not; so he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool.
Read in context1 Timothy 6:10
For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
Read in contextJob 31:24–25
If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold, Thou art my confidence;
Read in contextIsaiah 61:8
For I the LORD love judgment, I hate robbery for burnt offering; and I will direct their work in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.
Read in contextDeuteronomy 6:10–12
And it shall be, when the LORD thy God shall have brought thee into the land which he sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give thee great and goodly cities, which thou buildedst not,
Read in contextJob 20:19
Because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor; because he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not;
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