Parallel Verses
Modern King James verseion
Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery; if riches increase, do not set your heart on 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
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 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 men are vanity; the sons of men are a lie; they go up in the scales; they are altogether lighter than vanity. 10 Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery; if riches increase, do not set your heart on them. 11 God has spoken once; twice I have heard this, that power belongs to God.
Names
Cross References
Psalm 52:7
Behold, the man who did not make God his strength, but trusted in the abundance of his riches, he was strong in his wickedness.
Isaiah 30:12
Therefore so says the Holy One of Israel, Because you have despised this Word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and rest on them;
Deuteronomy 6:10-12
And it shall be when Jehovah your God has brought you into the land which He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give you great and good cities which you did not build,
Deuteronomy 8:12-14
lest when you have eaten and are full and have built good houses and lived in them,
Job 20:19
For he pressed down and forsook the poor; he stole a house, but he had not built it.
Job 20:29
This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the inheritance of his word from God.
Job 27:16-23
Though he heaps up silver like the dust, and prepares clothing like the clay,
Job 31:24-25
If I have made gold my hope, or have called fine gold my trust;
Psalm 39:6
Surely a man walks about like a shadow! Surely they are in an uproar in vain. He heaps up, and does not know who shall gather them.
Psalm 49:6
Those who trust in their wealth, and their many riches, boast themselves.
Psalm 91:14
Because He has set His love on Me, therefore I will deliver Him; I will set Him on high, because He has known My name.
Proverbs 23:5
Will your eyes fly on it? And it is gone! For surely it makes wings for itself; it flies into the heavens like an eagle.
Isaiah 28:15
Because you have said, We have made a covenant with death, and we have made a vision with hell; when the overwhelming rod shall pass through, it shall not come to us; for we have made lies our refuge, and we have hidden ourselves under falsehood,
Isaiah 47:10
For you have trusted in your wickedness; you have said, No one sees me. Your wisdom and your knowledge, it has perverted you; and you have said in your heart, I am, and there is no one else.
Isaiah 59:4
None calls for justice, nor does anyone plead for truth; they trust in vanity and speak lies. They conceive mischief and bring out iniquity.
Isaiah 61:8
For I Jehovah love judgment, I hate robbery for 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 share I have measured to you, says Jehovah, because you have forgotten Me and trusted in falsehood.
Jeremiah 17:11
The quail sits on eggs and does not hatch them; in the same way he who gets riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the middle of his days, and in his end he 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 soul?
Mark 10:23
And Jesus looked around and said to His disciples, How hardly those having riches will enter into the kingdom of God!
Luke 12:15-21
And He said to them, Watch and keep yourselves from covetousness. For a man's life is not in the abundance of the things which he possesses.
1 Timothy 6:10
For the love of money is a root of all evils, of which some having lusted after, they were seduced from the faith and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
1 Timothy 6:17
Charge the rich in this world that they be not high-minded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, He offering to us richly all things to enjoy,