Psalms 62:10

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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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  • Ps 52:7 : 7 See, this is the man who did not make God his strength, but had faith in his goods and his property, and made himself strong in his wealth.
  • Isa 30:12 : 12 For this cause the Holy One of Israel says, Because you will not give ear to this word, and are looking for help in ways of deceit and evil, and are putting your hope in them:
  • Isa 47:10 : 10 For you had faith in your evil-doing; you said, No one sees me; by your wisdom and knowledge you have been turned out of the way: and you have said in your heart, I am, and there is no other.
  • Isa 59:4 : 4 No one puts forward an upright cause, or gives a true decision: their hope is in deceit, and their words are false; they are with child with sin, and give birth to evil.
  • Isa 61:8 : 8 For I, the Lord, take pleasure in upright judging; I will not put up with the violent taking away of right; and I will certainly give them their reward, and I will make an eternal agreement with them.
  • Jer 13:25 : 25 This is your fate, the part measured out to you by me, says the Lord, because you have put me out of your memory and put your faith in what is false.
  • Jer 17:11 : 11 Like the partridge, getting eggs together but not producing young, is a man who gets wealth but not by right; before half his days are ended, it will go from him, and at his end he will be foolish.
  • Ps 91:14 : 14 Because he has given me his love, I will take him out of danger: I will put him in a place of honour, because he has kept my name in his heart.
  • Prov 23:5 : 5 Are your eyes lifted up to it? it is gone: for wealth takes to itself wings, like an eagle in flight up to heaven.
  • Isa 28:15 : 15 Because you have said, We have made death our friend, and with the underworld we have made an agreement; when the overflowing waters come through they will not come near us; for we are looking to false words for help, taking cover in what is untrue:
  • Deut 6:10-12 : 10 And when the Lord your God has taken you into the land which he gave his oath to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, that he would give you; with great and fair towns which were not of your building; 11 And houses full of good things not stored up by you, and places for storing water which you did not make, and vine-gardens and olive-trees not of your planting; and you have taken food and are full; 12 Then take care that you keep your hearts true to the Lord, who took you out of the land of Egypt, out of the prison-house.
  • Deut 8:12-14 : 12 And when you have taken food and are full, and have made fair houses for yourselves and are living in them; 13 And when your herds and your flocks are increased, and your stores of silver and gold, and you have wealth of every sort; 14 Take care that your hearts are not lifted up in pride, giving no thought to the Lord your God who took you out of the land of Egypt, out of the prison-house;
  • Job 20:19 : 19 Because he has been cruel to the poor, turning away from them in their trouble; because he has taken a house by force which he did not put up;
  • Job 20:29 : 29 This is the reward of the evil man, and the heritage given to him by God.
  • Job 27:16-23 : 16 Though he may get silver together like dust, and make ready great stores of clothing; 17 He may get them ready, but the upright will put them on, and he who is free from sin will take the silver for a heritage. 18 His house has no more strength than a spider's thread, or a watchman's tent. 19 He goes to rest full of wealth, but does so for the last time: on opening his eyes, he sees it there no longer. 20 Fears overtake him like rushing waters; in the night the storm-wind takes him away. 21 The east wind takes him up and he is gone; he is forced violently out of his place. 22 God sends his arrows against him without mercy; he goes in flight before his hand. 23 Men make signs of joy because of him, driving him from his place with sounds of hissing.
  • Job 31:24-25 : 24 If I made gold my hope, or if I ever said to the best gold, I have put my faith in you; 25 If I was glad because my wealth was great, and because my hand had got together a great store;
  • Ps 39:6 : 6 Truly, every man goes on his way like an image; he is troubled for no purpose: he makes a great store of wealth, and has no knowledge of who will get it.
  • Ps 49:6 : 6 Even of those whose faith is in their wealth, and whose hearts are lifted up because of their stores.
  • Mark 10:23 : 23 And Jesus, looking round about, said to his disciples, How hard it is for those who have wealth to come into the kingdom of God!
  • Luke 12:15-21 : 15 And he said to them, Take care to keep yourselves free from the desire for property; for a man's life is not made up of the number of things which he has. 16 And he said to them, in a story, The land of a certain man of great wealth was very fertile: 17 And he said to himself, What is to be done? for I have no place in which to put all my fruit. 18 And he said, This I will do: I will take down my store-houses and make greater ones, and there I will put all my grain and my goods. 19 And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have a great amount of goods in store, enough for a number of years; be at rest, take food and wine and be happy. 20 But God said to him, You foolish one, tonight I will take your soul from you, and who then will be the owner of all the things which you have got together? 21 So that is what comes to the man who gets wealth for himself, and has not wealth in the eyes of God.
  • 1 Tim 6:10 : 10 For the love of money is a root of all evil: and some whose hearts were fixed on it have been turned away from the faith, and been wounded with unnumbered sorrows.
  • 1 Tim 6:17 : 17 Give orders to those who have money and goods in this life, not to be lifted up in their minds, or to put their hope in the uncertain chances of wealth, but in God who gives us in full measure all things for our use;
  • Mark 8:36-37 : 36 What profit has a man if he gets all the world with the loss of his life? 37 And what would a man give in exchange for his life?

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  • Ps 49:6
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    6Even of those whose faith is in their wealth, and whose hearts are lifted up because of their stores.

  • Ps 62:9
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    9Truly men of low birth are nothing, and men of high position are not what they seem; if they are put in the scales together they are less than a breath.

  • Prov 23:4-5
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    4Take no care to get wealth; let there be an end to your desire for money.

    5Are your eyes lifted up to it? it is gone: for wealth takes to itself wings, like an eagle in flight up to heaven.

  • Eccl 5:10-11
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    10When goods are increased, the number of those who take of them is increased; and what profit has the owner but to see them?

    11The sleep of a working man is sweet, if he has little food or much; but to him who is full, sleep will not come.

  • Ps 52:7
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    7See, this is the man who did not make God his strength, but had faith in his goods and his property, and made himself strong in his wealth.

  • Prov 11:28
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    28He who puts his faith in wealth will come to nothing; but the upright man will be full of growth like the green leaf.

  • Prov 22:16
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    16He who is cruel to the poor for the purpose of increasing his profit, and he who gives to the man of wealth, will only come to be in need.

  • Job 15:31
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    31Let him not put his hope in what is false, falling into error: for he will get deceit as his reward.

  • Prov 13:11
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    11Wealth quickly got will become less; but he who gets a store by the work of his hands will have it increased.

  • Prov 28:22
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    22He who is ever desiring wealth goes running after money, and does not see that need will come on him.

  • Ps 39:6
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    6Truly, every man goes on his way like an image; he is troubled for no purpose: he makes a great store of wealth, and has no knowledge of who will get it.

  • 1 Tim 6:17
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    17Give orders to those who have money and goods in this life, not to be lifted up in their minds, or to put their hope in the uncertain chances of wealth, but in God who gives us in full measure all things for our use;

  • Job 36:18-19
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  • Ps 49:16
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    16Have no fear when wealth comes to a man, and the glory of his house is increased;

  • Prov 5:10
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    10And strange men may be full of your wealth, and the fruit of your work go to the house of others;

  • Prov 13:7-8
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    7A man may be acting as if he had wealth, but have nothing; another may seem poor, but have great wealth.

    8A man will give his wealth in exchange for his life; but the poor will not give ear to sharp words.

  • Prov 28:20
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    20A man of good faith will have great blessing, but one attempting to get wealth quickly will not go free from punishment.

  • Deut 8:17
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    17Say not then, in your hearts, My power and the strength of my hands have got me this wealth.

  • Prov 22:22
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    22Do not take away the property of the poor man because he is poor, or be cruel to the crushed ones when they come before the judge:

  • Ps 146:3
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    3Put not your faith in rulers, or in the son of man, in whom there is no salvation.

  • Eccl 5:13
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    13And I saw the destruction of his wealth by an evil chance; and when he became the father of a son he had nothing in his hand.

  • Prov 3:31
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    31Have no envy of the violent man, or take any of his ways as an example.

  • Prov 3:5
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    5Put all your hope in God, not looking to your reason for support.

  • Jer 9:23
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    23This is the word of the Lord: Let not the wise man take pride in his wisdom, or the strong man in his strength, or the man of wealth in his wealth:

  • Prov 10:15
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    15The property of the man of wealth is his strong town: the poor man's need is his destruction.

  • Prov 18:11
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    11The property of a man of wealth is his strong town, and it is as a high wall in the thoughts of his heart.

  • Matt 6:19
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    19Make no store of wealth for yourselves on earth, where it may be turned to dust by worms and weather, and where thieves may come in by force and take it away.

  • Prov 28:8
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    8He who makes his wealth greater by taking interest, only gets it together for him who has pity on the poor.

  • Prov 24:19
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    19Do not be troubled because of evil-doers, or have envy of sinners:

  • Ezek 28:5
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    5By your great wisdom and by your trade your power is increased, and your heart is lifted up because of your power:

  • Prov 11:4
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    4Wealth is of no profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness keeps a man safe from death.

  • Prov 28:25
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    25He who is ever desiring profit is a cause of fighting; but he who puts his faith in the Lord will be made fat.

  • Luke 12:21
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    21So that is what comes to the man who gets wealth for himself, and has not wealth in the eyes of God.

  • Hab 2:9
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    9A curse on him who gets evil profits for his family, so that he may put his resting-place on high and be safe from the hand of the wrongdoer!

  • Job 31:25
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    25If I was glad because my wealth was great, and because my hand had got together a great store;

  • Ps 73:12
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    12Truly, such are the sinners; they do well at all times, and their wealth is increased.

  • Luke 16:11
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    11If, then, you have not been true in your use of the wealth of this life, who will give into your care the true wealth?

  • Eccl 7:7
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    7The wise are troubled by the ways of the cruel, and the giving of money is the destruction of the heart.

  • Luke 12:15
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    15And he said to them, Take care to keep yourselves free from the desire for property; for a man's life is not made up of the number of things which he has.

  • Prov 25:6
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    6Do not take glory for yourself before the king, and do not put yourself in the place of the great:

  • Ps 119:36
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    36Let my heart be turned to your unchanging word, and not to evil desire.

  • 1 Tim 6:9
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    9But those who have a desire for wealth are falling into danger, and are taken as in a net by a number of foolish and damaging desires, through which men are overtaken by death and destruction.

  • Eccl 6:2
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    2A man to whom God gives money, wealth, and honour so that he has all his desires but God does not give him the power to have joy of it, and a strange man takes it. This is to no purpose and an evil disease.

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    6He has said in his heart, I will not be moved: through all generations I will never be in trouble.

  • Ps 37:7
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    7Take your rest in the Lord, waiting quietly for him; do not be angry because of the man who does well in his evil ways, and gives effect to his bad designs.

  • Job 12:6
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    6There is wealth in the tents of those who make destruction, and those by whom God is moved to wrath are safe; even those whose god is their strength.