Proverbs 10:2
Treasures shall not profit the lawless: but righteousness shall deliver from death.
Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: but righteousness delivereth from death.
In Context
1A wise son makes his father glad: but a foolish son is a grief to his mother.
3The Lord will not famish a righteous soul: but he will overthrow the life of the ungodly.
Cross References
Proverbs 13:11Wealth gotten hastily with iniquity is diminished: but he that gathers for himself with godliness shall be increased. The righteous is merciful, and lends.
Isaiah 10:2perverting the cause of the poor, violently wresting the judgment of the needy ones of my people, that the widow may be a prey to them, and the orphan a spoil.
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 →