Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
For riches are not forever. And does the crown endure to all generations?
New American Standard Bible
Nor does a
King James Version
For riches are not for ever: and doth the crown endure to every generation?
Holman Bible
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.
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.
Themes
Agriculture or husbandry » Requires » Diligence
Endurance » What does not endure
Riches » Described as » Temporary
Interlinear
References
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 27:24
Verse Info
Context Readings
All About Life
23 Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, [and] look well to thy herds. 24 For riches are not forever. And does the crown endure to all generations? 25 The hay is carried, and the tender grass shows itself, and the herbs of the mountains are gathered in.
Cross References
2 Samuel 7:16
And thy house and thy kingdom shall be made sure forever before thee; thy throne shall be established forever.
Psalm 89:36
His seed shall endure forever, and his throne as the sun before me.
Isaiah 9:7
Of the increase of his government and of peace there shall be no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to establish it, and to uphold it with justice and with righteousness from henceforth even forever. The zeal of L
Zephaniah 1:18
Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of LORD's wrath, but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy. For he will make an end, yea, a terrible end, of all those who dwell in
1 Timothy 6:17-18
Command the rich in the present age not to be arrogant, nor hope in the uncertainty of wealth, but in the living God, who supplies us all things abundantly for enjoyment,
James 1:10
but the rich in his lowliness, because as a flower of grass he will pass away.