the Week of Christ the King / Proper 29 / Ordinary 34
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Psalms 62:10
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Don't make your living by extortion or put your hope in stealing. And if your wealth increases, don't make it the center of your life.
Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery: if riches increase, set not your heart thereon.
Don't trust in oppression, And don't become vain in robbery: If riches increase, don't set your heart [thereon].
Do not trust in force. Stealing is of no use. Even if you gain more riches, don't put your trust in them.
Do not trust in what you can gain by oppression! Do not put false confidence in what you can gain by robbery! If wealth increases, do not become attached to it!
Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery: if riches increase, set not your heart [upon them].
Don't trust in oppression. Don't become vain in robbery. If riches increase, Don't set your heart on them.
Do not trust in oppression, And do not vainly hope in robbery; If riches increase, do not set your heart on them.
Put no trust in extortion; set no vain hopes on robbery; if riches increase, set not your heart on them.
Nile ye haue hope in wickidnesse, and nyle ye coueyte raueyns; if ritchessis be plenteuouse, nyle ye sette the herte therto.
Place no trust in extortion, or false hope in stolen goods. If your riches increase, do not set your heart upon them.
Don't trust in violence or depend on dishonesty or rely on great wealth.
Trust not in oppression, And become not vain in robbery: If riches increase, set not your heart thereon.
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.
Ordinary folks are merely a breath and important people a sham; if you lay them on a balance-scale, they go up — both together are lighter than nothing.
Put not confidence in oppression, and become not vain in robbery; if wealth increase, set not your heart upon it.
Men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie;
Trust not in oppression, become not vaine in robberie: if riches increase, set not your heart vpon them.
Do not get money in a wrong way or be proud in stolen things. If you get more riches, do not set your heart on them.
Put no confidence in extortion, and set no vain hopes on robbery; if riches increase, do not set your heart on them.
Trust not in oppression nor in robberie: be not vaine: if riches increase, set not your heart thereon.
Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery; if riches increase, let not your heart rejoice over them.
Don't put your trust in violence; don't hope to gain anything by robbery; even if your riches increase, don't depend on them.
Do not trust in extortion, Nor, with robbery, become vain, As for wealth, when it beareth fruit, Do not set thereon your heart.
(61-11) Trust not in iniquity, and cover not robberies: if riches abound, set not your heart upon them.
Put no confidence in extortion, set no vain hopes on robbery; if riches increase, set not your heart on them.
O trust not in wrong [dealing] and spoyling: geue not your selues vnto vanitie, if riches encrease, set not your heart [vpon them.]
Trust not in unrighteousness, and lust not after robberies: if wealth should flow in, set not your heart upon it.
Place no trust in oppression,or false hope in robbery.If wealth increases,don’t set your heart on it.
Don't trust in oppression. Don't become vain in robbery. If riches increase, Don't set your heart on them.
Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery: if riches increase, set not your heart upon them.
Do not trust in extortion, and do not put vain confidence in robbery. If wealth increases, do not set your heart on it.
Trust not in oppression, and do not be vain in robbery; if riches increase to you, do not set your heart on them.
Trust not in oppression, And in robbery become not vain, Wealth -- when it increaseth -- set not the heart.
O trust not in wronge & robbery, geue not yor selues vnto vanite: yf riches increase, set not yor herte vpon them.
And a windfall, if it comes— don't make too much of it.
Do not trust in oppression, And do not vainly rely on robbery; If wealth increases, do not set your heart on it.
Do not trust in oppression, Nor vainly hope in robbery; If riches increase, Do not set your heart on them.
Do not trust in oppression And do not vainly hope in robbery; If riches increase, do not set your heart upon them.
Do not trust in oppressionAnd do not put vain hope in robbery;If riches increase, do not set your heart upon them.
Contextual Overview
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Trust: Job 20:19, Job 20:29, Isaiah 28:15, Isaiah 30:12, Isaiah 47:10, Isaiah 59:4, Jeremiah 13:25, Jeremiah 17:11
riches: Psalms 39:6, Psalms 52:7, Deuteronomy 6:10-12, Deuteronomy 8:12-14, Job 27:16-23, Job 31:24, Job 31:25, Mark 8:36, Mark 8:37, Mark 10:23, Luke 12:15-21, 1 Timothy 6:17
set: Psalms 91:14, Proverbs 23:5
Reciprocal: Exodus 7:23 - neither Deuteronomy 17:17 - neither shall he 1 Samuel 9:20 - set not 2 Chronicles 11:16 - set Job 11:12 - For vain Job 15:31 - trust Psalms 49:6 - trust Psalms 73:12 - they Proverbs 11:28 - that Proverbs 18:11 - General Proverbs 30:8 - Remove Ecclesiastes 1:2 - General Ecclesiastes 5:10 - He that Jeremiah 9:23 - rich Jeremiah 31:21 - set thine Jeremiah 49:4 - trusted Ezekiel 28:5 - and by Daniel 6:9 - signed Hosea 10:13 - didst Hosea 12:8 - Yet Matthew 6:19 - General Matthew 13:22 - the deceitfulness Mark 10:24 - trust Luke 12:19 - Soul Colossians 3:2 - Set 1 Peter 1:18 - vain
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Trust not in oppression,.... Either in the power of oppressing others; see Isaiah 30:12; or in riches gotten by oppression, which being put into a man's hand by his friend, he keeps, and will not return them; so Aben Ezra and Kimchi interpret it of mammon unlawfully obtained; mammon of unrighteousness, or unrighteous mammon; see
Jeremiah 17:11;
and become not vain in robbery; in riches gotten by open rapine and theft; and men become vain herein when they boast of such riches, place their confidence in them, and think to make atonement for their sins by burnt sacrifices purchased with them, Isaiah 61:8;
if riches increase; in a lawful way, in such manner as the fruits of the earth do, as the word m used signifies: if they increase in great abundance from a little, as from one grain of corn many proceed; and insensibly, as the seed sown grows up, a man knows not how, through diligence and the blessing of God from heaven;
set not your heart [upon them]; your affections on them; they are ensnaring, they are apt to take the heart from God, to draw off the affections from Christ and things above, to choke the word, and lead into many temptations and harmful lusts; let not your hearts be elated, or lifted up with them; be not highminded, or filled with pride and vanity on account of them; nor put any trust in them, for they are uncertain things. Jarchi interprets it of the increase of the riches of others; see Psalms 49:16.
m ×× ×× "cum pullulaverit", Montanus; "efflorescunt", Cocceius; "germinant, fructificant", Amama.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
Trust not in oppression - The general meaning here is, that we are not to trust in anything but God. In the previous verse the psalmist had stated reasons why we should not trust in men of any rank. In this verse he enumerates several things on which people are accustomed to rely, or in which they place confidence, and he says that we should put no confidence in them in respect to the help which we need, or the great objects which are to be accomplished by us. The first thing mentioned is oppression; and the idea is, that we must not hope to accomplish our object by oppressing others; extorting their property or their service; making them by force subject to us, and subservient to our wishes. Many do this. Conquerors do it. Tyrants do it. The owners of slaves do it.
And become not vain in robbery - That is, Do not resort to theft or robbery, and depend on that for what is needed in life. Many do. The great robbers of the world - conquerors - have done it. Thieves and burglars do it. People who seek to defraud others of their earnings do it. They who withhold wages from laborers, and they who cheat in trade, do it.
If riches increase, set not your heart upon them - If you become rich without oppression, or without robbery. If your riches seem to grow of themselves - for that is the meaning of the original word (compare Mark 4:2) - do not rely on them as being all that you require. People are prone to do this. The rich man confides in his wealth, and supposes that he has all he needs. The psalmist says that none of these things constitute the true reliance of man. None of them can supply his real needs; none can defend him in the great perils of his existence; hone can save his soul. He needs, over and above all these, a God and Saviour; and it is such a God and Saviour only that can meet the real needs of his nature.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Psalms 62:10. Trust not in oppression — Do not suppose that my unnatural son and his partisans can succeed.
Become not vain in robbery — If ye have laid your hands on the spoils of my house, do not imagine that these ill-gotten riches will prosper. God will soon scatter them to all the winds of heaven. All oppressors come to an untimely end; and all property acquired by injustice has God's curse on it.
