Proverbs 27:24
For a man has not strength and power for ever; neither does he transmit it from generation to generation.
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
For riches are not for ever: and doth the crown endure to every generation?
In Context
23Do you thoroughly know the number of your flock, and pay attention to your herds.
25Take care of the herbage in the field, and you shall cut grass, and gather the mountain hay;
Cross References
1 Samuel 13:14But now your kingdom shall not stand to you, and the Lord shall seek for himself a man after his own heart; and the Lord shall appoint him to be a ruler over his people, because you have not kept all that the Lord commanded you.
Proverbs 23:5If you should fix your eye upon him, he will disappear; for wings like an eagle's are prepared for him, and he returns to the house of his master.
Isaiah 9:7His government shall be great, and of his peace there is no end: it shall be upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to establish it, and to support it with judgment and with righteousness, from henceforth and forever. The seal of the Lord of hosts shall perform this.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 27:24-27
The Reward of Prudence. 23 Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, and look well to thy herds. 24 For riches are not for ever: and doth the crown endure to every generation? 25 The hay appeareth, and the tender grass sheweth itself, and herbs of the mountains are gathered. 26 The lambs are for thy clothing, and the goats are the price of the field. 27 And thou shalt have goats' milk enough for thy food, for the food of thy household, and for the maintenance for thy maidens. Here is, I. A command given us… Read the whole commentary →