Psalms 62:10

Do not trust in money gained by extorting it from others; do not try to gain anything by robbing others. If you become very wealthy, do not trust in [IDM] your money.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery: if riches increase, set not your heart upon them.

In Context

9People who are considered to be unimportant are as worthless/unreliable as a breath of air; people who are considered to be important also really ◄amount to nothing/cannot be trusted to help us►. If you put them all on a scale, it would be as if they weighed less than a puff of air.

11I have heard God say more than once that he is the one who really has power,

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 6:10“Yahweh our God vowed to your ancestors Abraham and Isaac and Jacob that he will give you a land that already has in it large and prosperous cities that you did not build.

Job 20:19because they oppressed poor people and refused to help them, and they took other people’s houses by cheating them.

Job 27:16Sometimes wicked people accumulate a huge amount [SIM] of silver and pile up clothes like [SIM] those clothes were a pile of clay,

Psalms 4:3All those who are loyal to Yahweh, he has chosen them to belong to him. Yahweh listens to me when I pray to him.

Psalms 49:6by evil men who trust that things will always go well for them because they are wealthy, and who boast about being very rich.

Psalms 91:14Yahweh says, “I will rescue those who love me, I will protect them because they ◄acknowledge that I am Yahweh/know me►.

Matthew Henry on Psalms 62:9-12

An Exhortation to Trust in God. 8 Trust in him at all times; ye people, pour out your heart before him: God is a refuge for us. Selah. 9 Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity. 10 Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery: if riches increase, set not your heart upon them. 11 God hath spoken once; twice have I heard this; that power belongeth unto God. 12 Also unto thee, O Lord, belongeth mercy: for thou… Read the whole commentary →

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