Parallel Verses
King James 2000
Trust not in oppression, and hope not vainly in robbery: if riches increase, set not your heart upon them.
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.
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
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 men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: if laid on the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity. 10 Trust not in oppression, and hope not vainly in robbery: if riches increase, set not your heart upon them. 11 God has spoken once; twice have I heard this; that power belongs unto God.
Names
Cross References
Psalm 52:7
Lo, this is the man that made not God his strength; but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness.
Isaiah 30:12
Therefore thus says the Holy One of Israel, Because you despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and rely on them:
Deuteronomy 6:10-12
And it shall be, when the LORD your God shall have brought you into the land which he swore unto your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give you great and beautiful cities, which you built not,
Deuteronomy 8:12-14
Lest when you have eaten and are full, and have built fine houses, and dwelt in them;
Job 20:19
Because he has oppressed and has forsaken the poor; because he has violently taken away a house which he built not;
Job 20:29
This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed unto him by God.
Job 27:16-23
Though he heap up silver as the dust, and pile up clothing as the clay;
Job 31:24-25
If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold, You are my confidence;
Psalm 39:6
Surely every man walks in a vain show: surely they are in turmoil in vain: he heaps up riches, and knows not who shall gather them.
Psalm 49:6
They that trust in their wealth, and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches;
Psalm 91:14
Because he has set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he has known my name.
Proverbs 23:5
Will you set your eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.
Isaiah 28:15
Because you have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with sheol are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
Isaiah 47:10
For you have trusted in your wickedness: you have said, None sees me. Your wisdom and your knowledge, it has perverted you; and you have said in your heart, I am, and there is none else besides me.
Isaiah 59:4
None calls for justice, nor does any plead for truth: they trust in empty words, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.
Isaiah 61:8
For I the LORD love justice, I hate robbery with a burnt offering; and I will direct their work in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.
Jeremiah 13:25
This is your lot, the portion of your measures from me, says the LORD; because you have forgotten me, and trusted in falsehood.
Jeremiah 17:11
As the partridge sits on eggs, and hatches them not; so he that gets riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool.
Mark 8:36-37
For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own life?
Mark 10:23
And Jesus looked round about, and said unto his disciples, How hard for those that have riches to enter into the kingdom of God!
Luke 12:15-21
And he said unto them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man's life consists not in the abundance of the things which he possesses.
1 Timothy 6:10
For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
1 Timothy 6:17
Charge them that are rich in this present age, that they be not haughty, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who gives us richly all things to enjoy;