Proverbs 10:2
Treasures of impiety will profit nothing. Truly, justice shall liberate from death.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: but righteousness delivereth from death.
In Context
1A wise son gladdens the father. Yet truly, a foolish son is the grief of his mother.
Cross References
Proverbs 11:4Wealth will not profit in the day of vengeance. But justice shall liberate from death.
Proverbs 13:11Substance obtained in haste will be diminished. But what is collected by hand, little by little, shall be multiplied.
Isaiah 10:2in order to oppress the poor in judgment, and to do violence to the case of the humble of my people, in order that widows may be their prey, and that they might plunder the orphan.
Daniel 4:27And the king spoke out loud, saying, “Isn’t this the great Babylon, which I have built, as the home of the kingdom, by the strength of my power and in the glory of my excellence?”
Luke 12:15So he said to them: “Be cautious and wary of all avarice. For a person’s life is not found in the abundance of the things that he possesses.”
Romans 2:5But in accord with your hard and impenitent heart, you store up wrath for yourself, unto the day of wrath and of revelation by the just judgment of God.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 10:2
Weighty Sayings. 1 The proverbs of Solomon. A wise son maketh a glad father: but a foolish son is the heaviness of his mother. Solomon, speaking to us as unto children, observes here how much the comfort of parents, natural, political, and ecclesiastical, depends upon the good behaviour of those under their charge, as a reason, 1. Why parents should be careful to give their children a good education, and to train them up in the ways of religion, which, if it obtain the desired effect, they themselves will have the… Read the whole commentary →