Parallel Verses

Youngs Literal Translation

Trust not in oppression, And in robbery become not vain, Wealth -- when it increaseth -- set not the heart.

New American Standard Bible

Do not trust in oppression
And do not vainly hope in robbery;
If riches increase, do not set your heart upon them.

King James Version

Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery: if riches increase, set not your heart upon them.

Holman Bible

Place no trust in oppression,
or false hope in robbery.
If wealth increases,
pay no attention to it.

International Standard Version

Don't trust in oppression or put false hope in stealing; if you become wealthy, do not set your heart on it.

A Conservative Version

Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery. If riches increase, set not your heart [on it].

American Standard Version

Trust not in oppression, And become not vain in robbery: If riches increase, set not your heart thereon .

Amplified


Do not trust in oppression,
And do not vainly hope in robbery;
If riches increase, do not set your heart on them.

Bible in Basic English

Have no faith in the rewards of evil-doing, or in profits wrongly made: if your wealth is increased, do not put your hopes on it.

Darby Translation

Put not confidence in oppression, and become not vain in robbery; if wealth increase, set not your heart upon it.

Julia Smith Translation

Ye shall not trust in oppression, ye shall not become vain in plunder: if wealth shall increase ye shall not set the heart

King James 2000

Trust not in oppression, and hope not vainly in robbery: if riches increase, set not your heart upon them.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Do not trust in extortion, and do not put vain [confidence] in robbery. If wealth increases, do not set [your] heart [on it].

Modern King James verseion

Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery; if riches increase, do not set your heart on them.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

O trust not in wrong or robbery; give not yourselves unto vanity. If riches increase, set not your heart upon them.

NET Bible

Do not trust in what you can gain by oppression! Do not put false confidence in what you can gain by robbery! If wealth increases, do not become attached to it!

New Heart English Bible

Do not trust in oppression. Do not become vain in robbery. If riches increase, do not set your heart on them.

The Emphasized Bible

Do not trust in extortion, Nor, with robbery, become vain, As for wealth, when it beareth fruit, Do not set thereon your heart.

Webster

Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery: if riches increase, set not your heart upon them.

World English Bible

Don't trust in oppression. Don't become vain in robbery. If riches increase, don't set your heart on them.

Verse Info

Context Readings

Trust In God Alone

9 Only -- vanity are the low, a lie the high. In balances to go up they than vanity are lighter. 10 Trust not in oppression, And in robbery become not vain, Wealth -- when it increaseth -- set not the heart. 11 Once hath God spoken, twice I heard this, That 'strength is with God.'


Cross References

Psalm 52:7

'Lo, the man who maketh not God his strong place, And trusteth in the abundance of his riches, He is strong in his mischiefs.'

Isaiah 30:12

Therefore, thus said the Holy One of Israel, Because of your kicking against this word, And ye trust in oppression, And perverseness, and rely on it,

Deuteronomy 6:10-12

And it hath been, when Jehovah thy God doth bring thee in unto the land which He hath sworn to thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give to thee -- cities great and good, which thou hast not built,

Deuteronomy 8:12-14

lest thou eat, and hast been satisfied, and good houses dost build, and hast inhabited;

Job 20:19

For he oppressed -- he forsook the poor, A house he hath taken violently away, And he doth not build it.

Job 20:29

This is the portion of a wicked man from God. And an inheritance appointed him by God.

Job 27:16-23

If he heap up as dust silver, And as clay prepare clothing,

Job 31:24-25

If I have made gold my confidence, And to the pure gold have said, 'My trust,'

Psalm 39:6

Only, in an image doth each walk habitually, Only, in vain, they are disquieted, He heapeth up and knoweth not who gathereth them.

Psalm 49:6

Those trusting on their wealth, And in the multitude of their riches, Do shew themselves foolish.

Psalm 91:14

Because in Me he hath delighted, I also deliver him -- I set him on high, Because he hath known My name.

Proverbs 23:5

For wealth maketh to itself wings, As an eagle it flieth to the heavens.

Isaiah 28:15

Because ye have said: 'We have made a covenant with death, And with Sheol we have made a provision, An overflowing scourge, when it passeth over, Doth not meet us, Though we have made a lie our refuge, And in falsehood have been hidden.'

Isaiah 47:10

And thou art confident in thy wickedness, Thou hast said, 'There is none seeing me,' Thy wisdom and thy knowledge, It is turning thee back, And thou sayest in thy heart, 'I am, and none else.'

Isaiah 59:4

There is none calling in righteousness, And there is none pleading in faithfulness, Trusting on emptiness, and speaking falsehood, Conceiving perverseness, and bearing iniquity.

Isaiah 61:8

For I am Jehovah, loving judgment, Hating plunder for a burnt-offering, And I have given their wage in truth, And a covenant age-during I make for them.

Jeremiah 13:25

This is thy lot, the portion of thy measures from Me -- an affirmation of Jehovah, Because thou hast forgotten me, And dost trust in falsehood.

Jeremiah 17:11

A partridge hatching, and not bringing forth, Is one making wealth, and not by right, In the midst of his days he doth forsake it, And in his latter end -- he is a fool.

Mark 8:36-37

for what shall it profit a man, if he may gain the whole world, and forfeit his life?

Mark 10:23

And Jesus having looked round, saith to his disciples, 'How hardly shall they who have riches enter into the reign of God!'

Luke 12:15-21

And he said unto them, 'Observe, and beware of the covetousness, because not in the abundance of one's goods is his life.'

1 Timothy 6:10

for a root of all the evils is the love of money, which certain longing for did go astray from the faith, and themselves did pierce through with many sorrows;

1 Timothy 6:17

Those rich in the present age charge thou not to be high-minded, nor to hope in the uncertainty of riches, but in the living God, who is giving to us all things richly for enjoyment; --

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