Proverbs 10:2
Treasures of wickedness profit not, And righteousness delivereth from death.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: but righteousness delivereth from death.
In Context
Cross References
Proverbs 11:4Wealth profiteth not in a day of wrath, And righteousness delivereth from death.
Proverbs 13:11Wealth from vanity becometh little, And whoso is gathering by the hand becometh great.
Isaiah 10:2To turn aside from judgment the poor, And to take violently away the judgment Of the afflicted of My people, That widows may be their prey, That the fatherless they may spoil.
Daniel 4:27'Therefore, O king, let my counsel be acceptable unto thee, and thy sins by righteousness break off, and thy perversity by pitying the poor, lo, it is a lengthening of thine ease.
Luke 12:15And he said unto them, 'Observe, and beware of the covetousness, because not in the abundance of one's goods is his life.'
Romans 2:5but, according to thy hardness and impenitent heart, thou dost treasure up to thyself wrath, in a day of wrath and of the revelation of the righteous judgment of God,
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 →