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Waiting on God

Psalms 62:10

In 11 translations

BSB
Place no trust in extortion, or false hope in stolen goods. If your riches increase, do not set your heart upon them.
KJV
Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery: if riches increase, set not your heart upon them.
WEB
Don’t trust in oppression. Don’t become vain in robbery. If riches increase, don’t set your heart on them.
ASV
Trust not in oppression, And become not vain in robbery: If riches increase, set not your heart thereon.
LSV
Do not trust in oppression, || And do not become vain in robbery, || Do not set the heart [on] wealth when it increases.
YLT
Trust not in oppression, And in robbery become not vain, Wealth — when it increaseth — set not the heart.
DBY
Put not confidence in oppression, and become not vain in robbery; if wealth increase, set not your heart upon it.
DRC61:11
Trust not in iniquity, and cover not robberies: if riches abound, set not your heart upon them.
GNV
Trust not in oppression nor in robberie: be not vaine: if riches increase, set not your heart thereon.
JPS62:11
Trust not in oppression, and put not vain hope in robbery; if riches increase, set not your heart thereon.
LXXE61:11
Trust not in unrighteousness, and lust not after robberies: if wealth should flow in, set not your heart upon it.

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Original-language editions

WLC62:11
אַל־תִּבְטְח֣וּ בְעֹשֶׁק֮ וּבְגָזֵ֪ל אַל־תֶּ֫הְבָּ֥לוּ חַ֤יִל ׀ כִּֽי־יָנ֑וּב אַל־תָּשִׁ֥יתוּ לֵֽב׃KJV:Ps.62.10
LXX-Br61:11
Μὴ ἐλπίζετε ἐπʼ ἀδικίαν, καὶ ἐπὶ ἁρπάγματα μὴ ἐπιποθεῖτε· πλοῦτος ἐὰν ῥέῃ, μὴ προστίθεσθε καρδίαν.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

  • 1 Timothy 6:17Instruct 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.
  • Psalms 52:7“Look at the man who did not make God his refuge, but trusted in the abundance of his wealth and strengthened himself by destruction.”
  • Jeremiah 17:11Like 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 31:24–25If I have put my trust in gold or called pure gold my security, if I have rejoiced in my great wealth because my hand had gained so much,
  • Deuteronomy 6:10–12And 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, with houses full of every…
  • 1 Timothy 6:10For 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 61:8For 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.
  • Job 20:19For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor; he has seized houses he did not build.
  • Psalms 49:6They trust in their wealth and boast in their great riches.
  • Job 20:29This is the wicked man’s portion from God, the inheritance God has appointed him.”
  • Job 27:16–23Though he heaps up silver like dust and piles up a wardrobe like clay, what he lays up, the righteous will wear, and his silver will be divided by the innocent. The house he built is like a moth’s cocoon, like a hut…
  • Luke 12:15–21And He said to them, “Watch out! Guard yourselves against every form of greed, for one’s life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.” Then He told them a parable: “The ground of a certain rich man…
  • Isaiah 30:12Therefore this is what the Holy One of Israel says: “Because you have rejected this message, trusting in oppression and relying on deceit,
  • Deuteronomy 8:12–14Otherwise, when you eat and are satisfied, when you build fine houses in which to dwell, and when your herds and flocks grow large and your silver and gold increase and all that you have is multiplied, then your heart…
  • Mark 10:23Then Jesus looked around and said to His disciples, “How hard it is for the rich to enter the kingdom of God!”
  • Psalms 39:6Surely every man goes about like a phantom; surely he bustles in vain; he heaps up riches not knowing who will haul them away.

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  • 62:11 in some Bibles
  • 62:10 in most Bibles

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