Psalms 62:10
Do not trust in oppression, || And do not become vain in robbery, || Do not set the heart [on] wealth when it increases.
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In Context
9Surely vanity the low, a lie the high. In balances to go up || They [are] lighter than a breath.
11Once has God spoken, twice I heard this, || That “strength [is] with God.”
Cross References
Deuteronomy 6:10And it has been, when your God YHWH brings you into the land which He has sworn to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give to you great and good cities which you have not built,
Job 20:19For he oppressed—he forsook the poor, || He has taken a house away violently, || And he does not build it.
Job 27:16If he heaps up silver as dust, || And prepares clothing as clay,
Psalms 4:3And know that YHWH || Has separated a saintly one to Himself. YHWH hears in my calling to Him.
Psalms 49:6Those trusting on their wealth, || And in the multitude of their riches, || Show themselves foolish.
Psalms 91:14Because he has delighted in Me, || I also deliver him—I set him on high, || Because he has known My Name.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 62:9-12
An Exhortation to Trust in God. 8 Trust in him at all times; ye people, pour out your heart before him: God is a refuge for us. Selah. 9 Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity. 10 Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery: if riches increase, set not your heart upon them. 11 God hath spoken once; twice have I heard this; that power belongeth unto God. 12 Also unto thee, O Lord, belongeth mercy: for thou… Read the whole commentary →