Proverbs 11:4
Riches do not profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
Riches profit not in the day of wrath: but righteousness delivereth from death.
In Context
Cross References
Genesis 7:1And LORD said to Noah, Come, thou and all thy house into the ark, for I have seen thee righteous before me in this generation.
Job 36:18and there shall be wrath upon the impious because of the ungodliness of bribes which the unrighteous receive.
Proverbs 10:2Treasures of wickedness profit nothing, but righteousness delivers from death.
Isaiah 10:3And what will ye do in the day of visitation, and in the desolation which shall come from far? To whom will ye flee for help? And where will ye leave your glory?
Ezekiel 14:14though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they would deliver but their own souls by their righteousness, says lord LORD.
Matthew 16:26For what does it profit a men, if he should gain the whole world, and lose his soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 11:4
Advantages of the Righteous. 3 The integrity of the upright shall guide them: but the perverseness of transgressors shall destroy them. It is not only promised that God will guide the upright, and threatened that he will destroy the transgressors, but, that we may be the more fully assured of both, it is here represented as if the nature of the thing were such on both sides that it would do it itself. 1. The integrity of an honest man will itself be his guide in the way of duty and the way of safety. His… Read the whole commentary →