Proverbs 11:4
+ 11:4 there is no verse 4. The Alexandrine text has this. Possessions will not profit in a day of wrath, but righteousness will deliver from death.
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
Riches profit not in the day of wrath: but righteousness delivereth from death.
In Context
Cross References
Genesis 7:1And the Lord God said to Noe, Enter you and all your + 7:1 Gr. house. family into the ark, for you have I seen righteous before me in this generation.
Job 36:18but there shall be wrath upon the ungodly, by reason of the ungodliness of the bribes which they received for iniquities.
Proverbs 10:2Treasures shall not profit the lawless: but righteousness shall deliver from death.
Isaiah 10:3And what will they do in the day of visitation? for affliction shall come to you from afar: and to whom will you⌃ flee for help? and where will you⌃ leave your glory,
Ezekiel 14:14And though these three men should be in the midst of it, Noe, and Daniel, and Job, they alone should be delivered by their righteousness, says the Lord.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 11:4
Advantages of the Righteous. 3 The integrity of the upright shall guide them: but the perverseness of transgressors shall destroy them. It is not only promised that God will guide the upright, and threatened that he will destroy the transgressors, but, that we may be the more fully assured of both, it is here represented as if the nature of the thing were such on both sides that it would do it itself. 1. The integrity of an honest man will itself be his guide in the way of duty and the way of safety. His… Read the whole commentary →