Proverbs 10:2
Treasures of wickedness shall profit nothing: but justice shall deliver from death.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: but righteousness delivereth from death.
In Context
1A wise son maketh the father glad: but a foolish son is the sorrow of his mother.
Cross References
Proverbs 11:4Riches shall not profit in the day of revenge: but justice shall deliver from death.
Proverbs 13:11Substance got in haste shall be diminished: but that which by little and little is gathered with the hand shall increase.
Isaiah 10:2To oppress the poor in judgment, and do violence to the cause of the humble of my people: that widows might be their prey, and that they might rob the fatherless.
Daniel 4:27Wherefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable to thee, and redeem thou thy sins with alms, and thy iniquities with works of mercy to the poor: perhaps he will forgive thy offences.
Luke 12:15And he said to them: Take heed and beware of all covetousness; for a man's life doth not consist in the abundance of things which he possesseth.
Romans 2:5But according to thy hardness and impenitent heart, thou treasurest up to thyself wrath, against the day of wrath, and revelation of 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 →