Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
For riches abide not away, and the crown endureth not forever.
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?
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.
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 See that thou know the number of thy cattle thy self, and look well to thy flocks. 24 For riches abide not away, and the crown endureth not forever. 25 The hay groweth, the grass cometh up, and herbs are gathered in the mountains.
Cross References
Proverbs 23:5
Why wilt thou set thine eye upon the thing, which suddenly vanisheth away? For riches make themselves wings, and take their flight like an Eagle into the air.
2 Samuel 7:16
And thine house and thy kingdom shall endure without end after thee, and thy seat shall be established forever.'"
Psalm 89:36
His seed shall endure forever, and his throne is like as the sun before me.
Isaiah 9:7
He shall make no end to increase the kingdom and peace, and shall sit upon the seat of David and in his kingdom, to set up the same: to establish it with equity and righteousness, from thenceforth for evermore. This shall the jealousy of the LORD of hosts bring to pass.
Zephaniah 1:18
Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in that wrathful day of the LORD, but the whole land shall be consumed through the fire of his jealousy: for he shall soon make clean riddance of all them that dwell in the land.
1 Timothy 6:17-18
Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not exceeding wise, and that they trust not in the uncertain riches, but in the living God, which giveth us abundantly all things to enjoy them,
James 1:10
and the rich in that he is made low. For even as the flower of the grass shall he vanish away.