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Contemporary English Version

Proverbs 11:4

When God is angry, money won't help you. Obeying God is the only way to be saved from death.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Riches;   Thompson Chain Reference - Poverty-Riches;   Riches, Earthly;   Treasures, Earthly;   The Topic Concordance - Day of the Lord;   Death;   Deliverance;   Profit;   Righteousness;   Wealth;   Wrath;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Protection;   Riches;  

Dictionaries:

- Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Pardon;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Alms;   Proverbs, the Book of;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Judgment Day;   Proverbs, Book of;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Alms;   Wilson's Dictionary of Bible Types - Rich (and forms);  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Alms;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Alms;   Anger;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Wealth is not profitable on a day of wrath,but righteousness rescues from death.
Hebrew Names Version
Riches don't profit in the day of wrath, But righteousness delivers from death.
King James Version
Riches profit not in the day of wrath: but righteousness delivereth from death.
English Standard Version
Riches do not profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death.
New American Standard Bible
Riches do not benefit on the day of wrath, But righteousness rescues from death.
New Century Version
Riches will not help when it's time to die, but right living will save you from death.
New English Translation
Wealth does not profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from mortal danger.
Amplified Bible
Riches will not provide security in the day of wrath and judgment, But righteousness rescues from death.
World English Bible
Riches don't profit in the day of wrath, But righteousness delivers from death.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Riches auaile not in the day of wrath: but righteousnes deliuereth from death.
Legacy Standard Bible
Wealth will not profit in the day of wrath,But righteousness will deliver from death.
Berean Standard Bible
Riches are worthless in the day of wrath, but righteousness brings deliverance from death.
Complete Jewish Bible
On the day of wrath, wealth doesn't help; but righteousness rescues from death.
Darby Translation
Wealth profiteth not in the day of wrath; but righteousness delivereth from death.
Easy-to-Read Version
Money is worthless when you face God's punishment, but living right will save you from death.
George Lamsa Translation
Riches profit not in the day of wrath; but righteousness delivers from death.
Good News Translation
Riches will do you no good on the day you face death, but honesty can save your life.
Lexham English Bible
Wealth does not profit on the day of wrath, but righteousness will deliver from death.
Literal Translation
Riches do not profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
Riches helpe not in the daye of vengeaunce, but rightuousnesse delyuereth fro death.
American Standard Version
Riches profit not in the day of wrath; But righteousness delivereth from death.
Bible in Basic English
Wealth is of no profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness keeps a man safe from death.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Riches profit not in the day of wrath; but righteousness delivereth from death.
King James Version (1611)
Riches profite not in the day of wrath: but righteousnesse deliuereth from death.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Riches helpe not in the day of vengeaunce: but ryghteousnesse deliuereth from death.
English Revised Version
Riches profit not in the day of wrath: but righteousness delivereth from death.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Richessis schulen not profite in the dai of veniaunce; but riytfulnesse schal delyuere fro deth.
Update Bible Version
Riches do not profit in the day of wrath; But righteousness delivers from death.
Webster's Bible Translation
Riches profit not in the day of wrath: but righteousness delivereth from death.
New King James Version
Riches do not profit in the day of wrath, But righteousness delivers from death.
New Living Translation
Riches won't help on the day of judgment, but right living can save you from death.
New Life Bible
Riches are of no use in the day of God's anger, but being right with God saves from death.
New Revised Standard
Riches do not profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Wealth, shall not profit, in the day of wrath, but, righteousness, shall deliver from death.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Riches shall not profit in the day of revenge: but justice shall deliver from death.
Revised Standard Version
Riches do not profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death.
Young's Literal Translation
Wealth profiteth not in a day of wrath, And righteousness delivereth from death.
THE MESSAGE
A thick bankroll is no help when life falls apart, but a principled life can stand up to the worst.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Riches do not profit in the day of wrath, But righteousness delivers from death.

Contextual Overview

4 When God is angry, money won't help you. Obeying God is the only way to be saved from death.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Riches: Proverbs 10:2, Job 36:18, Job 36:19, Psalms 49:6-8, Ezekiel 7:19, Zephaniah 1:18, Matthew 16:26, Luke 12:20

but: Proverbs 12:28, Genesis 7:1, Romans 5:17, 1 Timothy 4:8

Reciprocal: Genesis 7:23 - and Noah Job 20:28 - and his goods Job 21:30 - day Psalms 49:9 - That he Psalms 49:10 - leave Proverbs 8:18 - and righteousness Proverbs 11:19 - righteousness Proverbs 18:11 - General Ecclesiastes 5:13 - riches Ecclesiastes 7:12 - the excellency Isaiah 10:3 - where Jeremiah 9:23 - rich Jeremiah 48:36 - the riches Ezekiel 14:14 - deliver Ezekiel 27:27 - Thy riches Zechariah 9:4 - the Lord Matthew 6:19 - General Romans 2:5 - the day James 5:1 - ye James 5:20 - from death

Cross-References

Genesis 6:4
The children of the supernatural beings who had married these women became famous heroes and warriors. They were called Nephilim and lived on the earth at that time and even later.
Genesis 11:8
So the people had to stop building the city, because the Lord confused their language and scattered them all over the earth. That's how the city of Babel got its name.
Genesis 11:13
Arpachshad had more children and died at the age of four hundred thirty-eight.
Deuteronomy 1:28
We are afraid, because the men who explored the land told us that the cities are large, with walls that reach to the sky. The people who live there are taller and stronger than we are, and some of them are Anakim. We have nowhere to go."
Deuteronomy 4:27
Only a few of you will survive, and the Lord will force you to leave the land and will scatter you among the nations.
Deuteronomy 9:1
Moses said: Israel, listen to me! You will soon cross the Jordan River and go into the land to force out the nations that live there. They are more powerful than you are, and the walls around their cities reach to the sky.
2 Samuel 8:13
David fought the Edomite army in Salt Valley and killed eighteen thousand of their soldiers. When he returned, he built a monument.
Psalms 92:9
and your hateful enemies will be scattered and then destroyed.
Proverbs 10:7
Good people are remembered long after they are gone, but the wicked are soon forgotten.
Daniel 4:11
It grew stronger and higher, until it reached to heaven and could be seen from anywhere on earth.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Riches profit not in the day of wrath,.... When God takes away the soul, and summons to judgment, and brings to it; and as riches profited not Rome Pagan, in the day of the Lamb's wrath upon it; so neither will they profit Rome Papal, when it will come in remembrance before God, to give it the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath; see Revelation 6:15;

but righteousness delivereth from death; from the curse of a corporeal death; from the power of a spiritual one; and from dying the second or an eternal one; Revelation 6:15- :; the Targum is,

"from an evil death.''

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The day of wrath - Words true in their highest sense of the great “diesirae” of the future, but spoken in the first instance (compare Zephaniah 1:15-18) of any “day of the Lord,” any time of judgment, when men or nations receive the chastisement of their sins. At such a time “riches profit not.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 11:4. Riches profit not in the day of wrath — Among men they can do all things; but they cannot purchase the remission of sins, nor turn aside the wrath of God when that is poured out upon the opulent transgressor.


 
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