Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
For riches [are] not forever, nor a crown for generation [after] generation.
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.
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?
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 You will surely know the {condition} of your flock; your heart attends to the herds. 24 For riches [are] not forever, nor a crown for generation [after] generation. 25 When the grass is gone, then green growth will appear, and the herbs of the mountains will be gathered.
Cross References
Proverbs 23:5
Your eyes will {alight} on it, but there is nothing [to] it, for suddenly it will make for itself wings like an eagle and it will be exhausted [in] the heavens.
2 Samuel 7:16
Your house and your kingdom shall endure forever before you; your throne shall be established forever." '"
Psalm 89:36
His offspring will endure forever, and his throne as the sun before me.
Isaiah 9:7
{His dominion will grow continually, and to peace there will be no end} on the throne of David and over his kingdom, to establish it and sustain it with justice and righteousness now and forever. The zeal of Yahweh of hosts will do this.
Zephaniah 1:18
Moreover, their silver and their gold will not be able to save them on the day of the wrath of Yahweh. And in the fire of his zeal, the whole land shall be consumed, for a terrifying end he shall make [for] all the inhabitants of the land.
1 Timothy 6:17-18
Command those [who are] rich in this present age not to be proud and not to put their hope in the uncertainty of riches, but in God, who provides us all [things] richly for enjoyment,
James 1:10
but the rich person in his humiliation, because he will pass away like a flower of the grass.