Proverbs 10:2
Treasures of wickedness profit nothing; but righteousness delivereth from death.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: but righteousness delivereth from death.
In Context
Cross References
Proverbs 11:4Riches profit not in the day of wrath; but righteousness delivereth from death.
Proverbs 13:11Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished; but he that gathereth little by little shall increase.
Isaiah 10:2To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right of the poor of My people, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!
Daniel 4:27(4-24) Wherefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable unto thee, and break off thy sins by almsgiving, and thine iniquities by showing mercy to the poor; if there may be a lengthening of thy prosperity.'
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 →