Proverbs 10:2

Money that you get by doing dishonest/wicked things will really not benefit you; but by living righteously you will live for ◄a long time/many years►.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: but righteousness delivereth from death.

In Context

1These are more proverbs/wise sayings from Solomon: If children are wise, they cause their parents to be happy; but if children are foolish, they cause their parents to be very sad.

3Yahweh does not allow righteous people to starve, but he will prevent wicked people from getting what they want.

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Cross References

Proverbs 11:4Your money will not help you on the day that God judges and punishes people; but if you live righteously, you will live a long time.

Proverbs 13:11Those who acquire a lot of money quickly by doing what is wrong, probably will lose it quickly, but if people earn money slowly, the amount of money they have will increase.

Isaiah 10:2You refuse to help poor people, and you do not allow them to get the things that they should get. You allow people to steal things from widows and do unfair things to orphans.

Daniel 4:27◄Your Majesty/O King►, please do what I am telling you to do. Stop sinning, and do what is right. Turn away from your evil behavior. Act mercifully to poor people. If you do that, perhaps you will continue to be sucessful.”

Luke 12:15Then he said to the whole crowd, “Guard yourselves very carefully, in order that you do not desire other people’s things in any way! No one can make his life secure by obtaining many possessions.”

Romans 2:5But instead, by your stubbornly refusing to turn away from your sinful behavior [DOU], you are causing [MET] God to punish you even more severely. He will do that at the time when he shows that he is angry and judges people fairly.

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 →

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