Parallel Verses
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
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.
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.
Darby Translation
Put not confidence in oppression, and become not vain in robbery; if wealth increase, set not your heart upon it.
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 Surely the sons of man vanity, the sons of man falsehood: to be brought up into the balances, they together of vanity. 10 Ye shall not trust in oppression, ye shall not become vain in plunder: if wealth shall increase ye shall not set the heart 11 Once God spake; twice I heard this; that strength is to God.
Names
Cross References
Psalm 52:7
Behold, the man will not set God his strength, and he will trust in the multitude of his riches he will be strengthened in his mischief.
Isaiah 30:12
Therefore thus said the Holy One of Israel, Because ye rejected in this word, and ye will trust in violence and perverseness, and ye will do upon it
Deuteronomy 6:10-12
And it was when Jehovah thy God shall bring thee in to the land which he sware to thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaak and to Jacob, to give to thee cities great and good which thou didst not build,
Deuteronomy 8:12-14
Lest thou shalt eat and thou wert satisfied, and thou wilt build good houses and thou dwelt;
Job 20:19
For he oppressed, forsaking the poor; he stripped the house and he will not build it up.
Job 20:29
This the portion of an unjust man and the lot of his command from God.
Job 27:16-23
If he shall heap up silver as the dust, and prepare clothing as clay;
Job 31:24-25
If I set gold my hope, and said to gold, My trust;
Psalm 39:6
Surely in a shadow a man will go about: surely they will be disquieted in vain: he will store up, and he knew not who shall gather them.
Psalm 49:6
They trusting upon their wealth, and they will glory in the multitude of their riches.
Psalm 91:14
For he delighted in me and I will deliver him: I will exalt him, for he knew my name.
Proverbs 23:5
Wilt thou cause thine eyes to fly upon it and it is not? for making, it will make to it wings; as an eagle and it flew to the heavens.
Isaiah 28:15
Because ye said, We cut out a covenant with death, and with hades we did this; when this overflowing scourge passed through it shall not come to us, for we set falsehood our refuge, and in ahewe hid ourselves.,
Isaiah 47:10
And thou wilt trust in thy wickedness: thou saidst, None saw me. Thy wisdom and thy knowledge it caused thee to turn away; and thou wilt say in thy heart, I, and none yet besides me.
Isaiah 59:4
None called upon justice, and none judged in truth: trusting in vanity and speaking evil, they conceived labor and brought forth vanity.
Isaiah 61:8
For I Jehovah love judgment, hating robbery for burnt-offering; and I gave their works in truth, and I will cut out to them an eternal covenant
Jeremiah 13:25
This thy lot and the portion of thy measure from me, says Jehovah; because thou didst forget me and thou wilt trust in falsehood.
Jeremiah 17:11
The partridge brooded and she brought not forth; to make riches and not in judgment, he shall leave them in the half of his days, and in his latter part he shall be foolish.
Mark 8:36-37
For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and injure his soul
Mark 10:23
And Jesus having looked round, said to his disciples, With what difficulty shall they having property enter into the kingdom of God
Luke 12:15-21
And he said to them, See, and watch yourselves from covetousness: for not in the abounding to any one of his possessions is his life.
1 Timothy 6:10
For the root of all evils is the love of money: which some striving for, have been led astray from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many pains.
1 Timothy 6:17
To the rich now in this life, proclaim not to be highminded, nor to be hoping upon the uncertainty of riches, but in the living God, offering us all things richly for profit;