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Proverbs 27:24
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for wealth is not forever;not even a crown lasts for all time.
For riches are not forever, Nor does even the crown endure to all generations.
For riches are not for ever: and doth the crown endure to every generation?
for riches do not last forever; and does a crown endure to all generations?
For riches are not forever, Nor does a crown endure to all generations.
Riches will not go on forever, nor do governments go on forever.
For riches are not forever, Nor does a crown endure to all generations.
For riches are not forever, Nor does even the crown endure to all generations.
For riches remaine not alway, nor the crowne from generation to generation.
For wealth is not forever,Neither is a crown from generation to generation.
for riches are not forever, nor does a crown endure to every generation.
because wealth and honor don't last forever.
For wealth doesn't last forever, neither does a crown through all generations.
for wealth is not for ever; and doth the crown [endure] from generation to generation?
Neither wealth nor nations last forever.
Possessions are not for ever; nor can riches be handed down from one generation to another.
because wealth is not permanent. Not even nations last forever.
For riches are not forever, nor a crown for generation after generation.
for wealth is not forever, nor the crown from generation to generation.
For riches abyde not allwaye, & the crowne endureth not for euer.
For riches are not for ever; And doth the crown endure unto all generations?
For wealth is not for ever, and money does not go on for all generations.
For riches are not for ever; and doth the crown endure unto all generations?
For riches are not for euer: and doth the crowne endure to euery generation?
For riches abideth not alway, and the crowne endureth not for euer.
It is better to dwell on a corner of the roof, than with a railing woman in an open house.
For riches are not for ever; and doth the crown endure unto all generations?
For thou schalt not haue power contynueli; but a coroun schal be youun to thee in generacioun and in to generacioun.
For riches are not forever: And does the crown endure to all generations?
For riches [are] not for ever: and doth the crown [endure] to every generation?
for riches do not last forever, nor does a crown last from generation to generation.
For riches are not forever, Nor does a crown endure to all generations.
for riches don't last forever, and the crown might not be passed to the next generation.
Riches do not last forever, and a crown does not pass from family to family.
for riches do not last forever, nor a crown for all generations.
For, not age-abiding, are riches, nor is the diadem, from generation to generation: -
For thou shalt not always have power: but a crown shall be given to generation and generation.
for riches do not last for ever; and does a crown endure to all generations?
For riches [are] not to the age, Nor a crown to generation and generation.
For riches are not forever, Nor does a crown endure to all generations.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
For: Proverbs 23:5, Zephaniah 1:18, 1 Timothy 6:17, 1 Timothy 6:18
riches: Heb. strength, James 1:10
doth: 2 Samuel 7:16, Psalms 89:36, Isaiah 9:7
every generation: Heb. generation and generation
Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 17:20 - right hand Psalms 39:6 - he heapeth 1 Timothy 6:7 - we brought
Cross-References
"Now, my son, listen to me. Do what I tell you. Go to the flock and get me two young goats. Pick the best; I'll prepare them into a hearty meal, the kind that your father loves. Then you'll take it to your father, he'll eat and bless you before he dies."
David answered Ahimelech the Priest, "The king sent me on a mission and gave strict orders: ‘This is top secret—not a word of this to a soul.' I've arranged to meet up with my men in a certain place. Now, what's there here to eat? Do you have five loaves of bread? Give me whatever you can scrounge up!"
Achish would ask, "And whom did you raid today?" David would tell him, "Oh, the Negev of Judah," or "The Negev of Jerahmeel," or "The Negev of the Kenites." He never left a single person alive lest one show up in Gath and report what David had really been doing. This is the way David operated all the time he lived in Philistine country.
He said, "How can I help?" "I'm a widow," she said. "My husband is dead. I had two sons. The two of them got into a fight out in the field and there was no one around to step between them. The one struck the other and killed him. Then the whole family ganged up against me and demanded, ‘Hand over this murderer so we can kill him for the life of the brother he murdered!' They want to wipe out the heir and snuff out the one spark of life left to me. And then there would be nothing left of my husband—not so much as a name—on the face of the earth. "So now I've dared come to the king, my master, about all this. They're making my life miserable, and I'm afraid. I said to myself, ‘I'll go to the king. Maybe he'll do something! When the king hears what's going on, he'll step in and rescue me from the abuse of the man who would get rid of me and my son and God's inheritance—the works!' As your handmaid, I decided ahead of time, ‘The word of my master, the king, will be the last word in this, for my master is like an angel of God in discerning good and evil.' God be with you!"
Truth lasts; lies are here today, gone tomorrow.
God can't stomach liars; he loves the company of those who keep their word.
What this adds up to, then, is this: no more lies, no more pretense. Tell your neighbor the truth. In Christ's body we're all connected to each other, after all. When you lie to others, you end up lying to yourself.
Don't lie to one another. You're done with that old life. It's like a filthy set of ill-fitting clothes you've stripped off and put in the fire. Now you're dressed in a new wardrobe. Every item of your new way of life is custom-made by the Creator, with his label on it. All the old fashions are now obsolete. Words like Jewish and non-Jewish, religious and irreligious, insider and outsider, uncivilized and uncouth, slave and free, mean nothing. From now on everyone is defined by Christ, everyone is included in Christ.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
For riches [are] not for ever,.... A man cannot be assured of the continuance of them; they are uncertain things, here today and gone tomorrow: wherefore, though a man has a considerable share of them, yet should follow one calling or another; particularly husbandry is recommended, or keeping sheep and cattle, which are increasing; by which means his substance will be continued and augmented, which otherwise is not to be depended on, but in a diligent attendance to business;
and doth the crown [endure] to every generation? the royal crown, that is not to be depended upon; a king that wears a crown is not sure he shall always wear it, or that it shall be continued to his family one generation after another. And it is suggested, that it is not even beneath such persons to have a regard to their flocks and herds, and the increase of their riches in this way: the Chinese kings, many of them, formerly employed themselves in husbandry, and set examples of industry and diligence to their subjects t; King Hezekiah provided himself possessions of flocks and herds in abundance, 2 Chronicles 32:28.
t Vid. Martin. Hist. Sinica, p. 92, 93, 326.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
The verses sing the praises of the earlier patriarchal life, with its flocks and herds, and tillage of the ground, as compared with the commerce of a later time, with money as its chief or only wealth.
Proverbs 27:23
The state - literally, face. The verse is an illustration of John 10:3, John 10:14.
Proverbs 27:24
Riches - The money which men may steal, or waste, is contrasted with the land of which the owner is not so easily deprived. Nor will the crown (both the “crown of pure gold” worn on the mitre of the high priest, Exodus 29:6; Exodus 39:30; and the kingly diadem, the symbol of power generally) be transmitted (as flocks and herds had been) “from one generation to another.”
Proverbs 27:25
Appeareth - Better, When the grass disappeareth, the “tender grass showeth itself.” Stress is laid on the regular succession of the products of the earth. The “grass” (“hay”) of the first clause is (compare Psalms 37:2; Psalms 90:5; Psalms 103:15; 2 Kings 19:26) the proverbial type of what is perishable and fleeting. The verse gives a picture of the pleasantness of the farmer’s calling; compared with this what can wealth or rank offer? With this there mingles (compare Proverbs 27:23) the thought that each stage of that life in its season requires care and watchfulness.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Proverbs 27:24. For riches are not for ever — All other kinds of property are very transitory. Money and the highest civil honours are but for a short season. Flocks and herds, properly attended to, may be multiplied and continued from generation to generation. The crown itself is not naturally so permanent.
