Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

For riches are not forever,
Nor does a crown endure to all generations.

King James Version

For riches are not for ever: and doth the crown endure to every generation?

Holman Bible

for wealth is not forever;
not even a crown lasts for all time.

International Standard Version

because riches don't endure forever, and crowns don't last from one generation to the next.

A Conservative Version

For riches are not forever. And does the crown endure to all generations?

American Standard Version

For riches are not for ever: And doth the crown endure unto all generations?

Amplified


For riches are not forever,
Nor does a crown endure to all generations.

Bible in Basic English

For wealth is not for ever, and money does not go on for all generations.

Darby Translation

for wealth is not for ever; and doth the crown endure from generation to generation?

Julia Smith Translation

For not strength forever, and not consecration to generation and generation.

King James 2000

For riches are not forever: and does the crown endure to every generation?

Lexham Expanded Bible

For riches [are] not forever, nor a crown for generation [after] generation.

Modern King James verseion

For riches are not forever; nor the crown from generation to generation.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

For riches abide not away, and the crown endureth not forever.

NET Bible

for riches do not last forever, nor does a crown last from generation to generation.

New Heart English Bible

for riches are not forever, nor does even the crown endure to all generations.

The Emphasized Bible

For, not age-abiding, are riches, nor is the diadem, from generation to generation: -

Webster

For riches are not for ever: and doth the crown endure to every generation?

World English Bible

for riches are not forever, nor does even the crown endure to all generations.

Youngs Literal Translation

For riches are not to the age, Nor a crown to generation and generation.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
חסן 
Chocen 
Usage: 5

are not for ever
עלם עולם 
`owlam 
Usage: 438

and doth the crown
נזר נזר 
Nezer 
Usage: 25

דּר דּור 
Dowr 
Usage: 167

References

Context Readings

All About Life

23 Know well the condition of your flocks,
And pay attention to your herds;
24 For riches are not forever,
Nor does a crown endure to all generations.
25 When the grass disappears, the new growth is seen,
And the herbs of the mountains are gathered in,

Cross References

Proverbs 23:5

When you set your eyes on it, it is gone.
For wealth certainly makes itself wings
Like an eagle that flies toward the heavens.

2 Samuel 7:16

Your house and your kingdom shall endure before Me forever; your throne shall be established forever.”’”

Psalm 89:36

“His descendants shall endure forever
And his throne as the sun before Me.

Isaiah 9:7

There will be no end to the increase of His government or of peace,
On the throne of David and over his kingdom,
To establish it and to uphold it with justice and righteousness
From then on and forevermore.
The zeal of the Lord of hosts will accomplish this.

Zephaniah 1:18

Neither their silver nor their gold
Will be able to deliver them
On the day of the Lord’s wrath;
And all the earth will be devoured
In the fire of His jealousy,
For He will make a complete end,
Indeed a terrifying one,
Of all the inhabitants of the earth.

1 Timothy 6:17-18

Instruct those who are rich in this present world not to be conceited or to fix their hope on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, who richly supplies us with all things to enjoy.

James 1:10

and the rich man is to glory in his humiliation, because like flowering grass he will pass away.

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