Proverbs 11:4
Hon (riches) profit not in the yom evrah (day of wrath), 1 but tzedakah (righteousness) delivereth from mavet. 1
Orthodox Jewish Bible
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 Hashem said unto Noach, Come thou and all thy bais into the tevah (ark); for thee have I found tzaddik before Me in dor hazeh.
Job 36:18Because there is chemah, beware lest He take thee away with His stroke; 1 then a rav kopher (great ransom) cannot deliver thee. 1
Proverbs 10:2Otzarot resha profit nothing, 1 but tzedakah (righteousness) saveth from mavet. 1
Isaiah 10:3And what will ye do in the Yom Pekuddah (Day Of Visitation, Reckoning) 1 and in the desolation which shall come from afar? 1 To whom will ye flee for ezrah (help)? 1 And where will ye leave your kavod (glory, riches)? 1
Ezekiel 14:14Though these three anashim — Noach, Daniel, and Iyov — were in it, they would deliver but their own nefesh by their tzedakah, saith Adonoi Hashem.
Matthew 16:26For what will a man be benefited if he acquires the whole world and forfeits his neshamah, or what will a man give in exchange for his neshamah?
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 →