Proverbs 11:4

Your 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.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

Riches profit not in the day of wrath: but righteousness delivereth from death.

In Context

3People who are good are guided by doing what is honest; those who are not honest will be ruined because of the wrong things that they do.

5When people are honest and good, that will ◄direct their paths/show them what is right for them to do►; but wicked people will experience disasters because of the evil things that they do.

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Cross References

Genesis 7:1Then Yahweh said to Noah, “I have seen that out of everyone who is now living, you alone always act righteously. So you and all your family go into the boat.

Job 36:18So be careful that you are not deceived by desiring to acquire money or that you are not ruined by accepting large bribes.

Proverbs 10:2Money 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►.

Isaiah 10:3When I punish you by sending people from distant lands to cause you to experience disasters, ◄to whom will you run to get help?/there will be no one who can help you.► [RHQ] Your valuable possessions will certainly not be safe [RHQ] anywhere.

Ezekiel 14:14even if Noah, Daniel, and Job were there, they would save only themselves because of their being righteous. That is what I, Yahweh the Lord, declare.

Matthew 16:26People might get everything they want in this world, but ◄ if they do not become my disciples, they would really be gaining nothing because they would not get eternal life!/what would they gain if they do not become my disciples and thus do not get eternal life?► [RHQ] ◄There is absolutely nothing that people can give to God that would enable them to gain eternal life./What can people give to God that could enable them to gain eternal life?► [MTY, RHQ]

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 →

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