Psalm 62:10 “Place no trust in extortion or false hope in stolen goods. If your ric…”

Psalm 62:10

Place no trust in extortion or false hope in stolen goods. If your riches increase, do not set your heart upon them.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

Don’t trust in oppression. Don’t become vain in robbery. If riches increase, don’t set your heart on them.

American Standard Version

Trust not in oppression, And become not vain in robbery: If riches increase, set not your heart thereon.

Geneva Bible 1599

Trust not in oppression nor in robberie: be not vaine: if riches increase, set not your heart thereon.

Darby Translation

Put not confidence in oppression, and become not vain in robbery; if wealth increase, set not your heart upon it.

Young's Literal Translation

Trust not in oppression, And in robbery become not vain, Wealth — when it increaseth — set not the heart.

Bible in Basic English

Have no faith in the rewards of evil-doing, or in profits wrongly made: if your wealth is increased, do not put your hopes on it.

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Cross references

“Trust”

Jeremiah 17:11 Job 20:19 Job 20:29 Isaiah 30:12 Isaiah 47:10 Isaiah 59:4

Jeremiah 17:11 · BSB

Like a partridge hatching eggs it did not lay is the man who makes a fortune unjustly. In the middle of his days his riches will desert him, and in the end he will be the fool.”

Job 20:19 · BSB

For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor; he has seized houses he did not build.

Job 20:29 · BSB

This is the wicked man’s portion from God, the inheritance God has appointed him.”

Isaiah 30:12 · BSB

Therefore this is what the Holy One of Israel says: “Because you have rejected this message, trusting in oppression and relying on deceit,

Isaiah 47:10 · BSB

You were secure in your wickedness; you said, ‘No one sees me.’ Your wisdom and knowledge led you astray; you told yourself, ‘I am, and there is none besides me.’

Isaiah 59:4 · BSB

No one calls for justice; no one pleads his case honestly. They rely on empty pleas; they tell lies; they conceive mischief and give birth to iniquity.

“riches”

1 Timothy 6:17 Psalm 52:7 Deuteronomy 6:10–12 Deuteronomy 8:12–14 Job 27:16–23 Mark 10:23

1 Timothy 6:17 · BSB

Instruct those who are rich in the present age not to be conceited and not to put their hope in the uncertainty of wealth, but in God, who richly provides all things for us to enjoy.

Psalm 52:7 · BSB

“Look at the man who did not make God his refuge, but trusted in the abundance of his wealth and strengthened himself by destruction.”

Deuteronomy 6:10–12 · BSB

And when the LORD your God brings you into the land He swore to your fathers, to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, that He would give you—a land with great and splendid cities that you did not build,

Deuteronomy 8:12–14 · BSB

Otherwise, when you eat and are satisfied, when you build fine houses in which to dwell,

Job 27:16–23 · BSB

Though he heaps up silver like dust and piles up a wardrobe like clay,

Mark 10:23 · BSB

Then Jesus looked around and said to His disciples, “How hard it is for the rich to enter the kingdom of God!”

“set”

Psalm 91:14 Proverbs 23:5

Psalm 91:14 · BSB

“Because he loves Me, I will deliver him; because he knows My name, I will protect him.

Proverbs 23:5 · BSB

When you glance at wealth, it disappears, for it makes wings for itself and flies like an eagle to the sky.

Also

1 Timothy 6:10 Isaiah 61:8 Psalm 49:6

1 Timothy 6:10 · BSB

For the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil. By craving it, some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many sorrows.

Isaiah 61:8 · BSB

For I, the LORD, love justice; I hate robbery and iniquity; in My faithfulness I will give them their recompense and make an everlasting covenant with them.

Psalm 49:6 · BSB

They trust in their wealth and boast in their great riches.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

9Lowborn men are but a vapor; the exalted are but a lie. Weighed on the scale, they go up; together they are but a vapor.

11God has spoken once; I have heard this twice: that power belongs to God,

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