Parallel Verses
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.
New American Standard Bible
And do not
If riches increase,
King James Version
Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery: if riches increase, set not your heart upon them.
Holman Bible
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.
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.
Youngs Literal Translation
Trust not in oppression, And in robbery become not vain, Wealth -- when it increaseth -- set not the heart.
Themes
Heart » What not to set your heart upon
Riches » They who possess, should » Not set the heart on them
earthly Riches » The perils of » Beget greed
Topics
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 62:10
Verse Info
Context Readings
Trust In God Alone
9 Truly men of low birth are nothing, and men of high position are not what they seem; if they are put in the scales together they are less than a breath. 10 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. 11 Once has God said, twice has it come to my ears, that power is God's:
Names
Cross References
Psalm 52:7
See, this is the man who did not make God his strength, but had faith in his goods and his property, and made himself
Isaiah 30:12
For this cause the Holy One of Israel says, Because you will not give ear to this word, and are looking for help in ways of deceit and evil, and are putting your hope in them:
Deuteronomy 6:10-12
And when the Lord your God has taken you into the land which he gave his oath to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, that he would give you; with great and fair towns which were not of your building;
Deuteronomy 8:12-14
And when you have taken food and are full, and have made fair houses for yourselves and are living in them;
Job 20:19
Because he has been cruel to the poor, turning away from them in their trouble; because he has taken a house by force which he did not put up;
Job 20:29
This is the reward of the evil man, and the heritage given to him by God.
Job 27:16-23
Though he may get silver together like dust, and make ready great stores of clothing;
Job 31:24-25
If I made gold my hope, or if I ever said to the best gold, I have put my faith in you;
Psalm 39:6
Truly, every man goes on his way like an image; he is troubled for no purpose: he makes a great store of wealth, and has no knowledge of who will get it.
Psalm 49:6
Even of those whose faith is in their wealth, and whose hearts are lifted up because of their stores.
Psalm 91:14
Because he has given me his love, I will take him out of danger: I will put him in a place of honour, because he has kept my name in his heart.
Proverbs 23:5
Are your eyes lifted up to it? it is gone: for wealth takes to itself wings, like an eagle in flight up to heaven.
Isaiah 28:15
Because you have said, We have made death our friend, and with the underworld we have made an agreement; when the overflowing waters come through they will not come near us; for we are looking to false words for help, taking cover in what is untrue:
Isaiah 47:10
For you had faith in your evil-doing; you said, No one sees me; by your wisdom and knowledge you have been turned out of the way: and you have said in your heart, I am, and there is no other.
Isaiah 59:4
No one puts forward an upright cause, or gives a true decision: their hope is in deceit, and their words are false; they are with child with sin, and give birth to evil.
Isaiah 61:8
For I, the Lord, take pleasure in upright judging; I will not put up with the violent taking away of right; and I will certainly give them their reward, and I will make an eternal agreement with them.
Jeremiah 13:25
This is your fate, the part measured out to you by me, says the Lord, because you have put me out of your memory and put your faith in what is false.
Jeremiah 17:11
Like the partridge, getting eggs together but not producing young, is a man who gets wealth but not by right; before half his days are ended, it will go from him, and at his end he will be foolish.
Mark 8:36-37
What profit has a man if he gets all the world with the loss of his life?
Mark 10:23
And Jesus, looking round about, said to his disciples, How hard it is for those who have wealth to come into the kingdom of God!
Luke 12:15-21
And he said to them, Take care to keep yourselves free from the desire for property; for a man's life is not made up of the number of things which he has.
1 Timothy 6:10
For the love of money is a root of all evil: and some whose hearts were fixed on it have been turned away from the faith, and been wounded with unnumbered sorrows.
1 Timothy 6:17
Give orders to those who have money and goods in this life, not to be lifted up in their minds, or to put their hope in the uncertain chances of wealth, but in God who gives us in full measure all things for our use;