Psalms 62:10
Don’t trust in oppression. Don’t become vain in robbery. If riches increase, don’t set your heart on them.
World English Bible
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In Context
11God has spoken once; twice I have heard this, that power belongs to God.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 6:10It shall be, when the LORD your God brings you into the land which he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give you, great and goodly cities which you didn’t build,
Job 20:19For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor. He has violently taken away a house, and he will not build it up.
Job 27:16Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare clothing as the clay;
Psalms 4:3But know that the LORD has set apart for himself him who is godly; The LORD will hear when I call to him.
Psalms 49:6Those who trust in their wealth, and boast in the multitude of their riches—
Psalms 91:14“Because he has set his love on me, therefore I will deliver him. I will set him on high, because he has known my name.
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 →