Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery: if riches increase, set not your heart on them. Treasury of Scripture Trust Job 20:19,29 Because he has oppressed and has forsaken the poor; because he has violently taken away an house which he built not... Isaiah 28:15 Because you have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement... Isaiah 30:12 Why thus said the Holy One of Israel, Because you despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon: Isaiah 47:10 For you have trusted in your wickedness: you have said, None sees me. Your wisdom and your knowledge, it has perverted you... Isaiah 59:4 None calls for justice, nor any pleads for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief... Jeremiah 13:25 This is your lot, the portion of your measures from me, said the LORD; because you have forgotten me, and trusted in falsehood. Jeremiah 17:11 As the partridge sits on eggs, and hatches them not; so he that gets riches, and not by right... riches Psalm 39:6 Surely every man walks in a vain show: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heaps up riches, and knows not who shall gather them. Psalm 52:7 See, this is the man that made not God his strength; but trusted in the abundance of his riches... Deuteronomy 6:10-12 And it shall be, when the LORD your God shall have brought you into the land which he swore to your fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac... Deuteronomy 8:12-14 Lest when you have eaten and are full, and have built goodly houses, and dwelled therein... Job 27:16 Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare raiment as the clay; Job 31:24,25 If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold, You are my confidence... Mark 8:36,37 For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul... Mark 10:23 And Jesus looked round about, and said to his disciples, How hardly shall they that have riches enter into the kingdom of God! Luke 12:15-21 And he said to them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness... 1 Timothy 6:17 Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not high minded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God... set Psalm 91:14 Because he has set his love on me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he has known my name. Proverbs 23:5 Will you set your eyes on that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.
Context My Soul Rests in God Alone
1Truly my soul waits on God: from him comes my salvation. 2He only is my rock and my salvation; he is my defense; I shall not be greatly moved. 3How long will you imagine mischief against a man? you shall be slain all of you: as a bowing wall shall you be, and as a tottering fence. 4They only consult to cast him down from his excellency: they delight in lies: they bless with their mouth, but they curse inwardly. Selah. 5My soul, wait you only on God; for my expectation is from him. 6He only is my rock and my salvation: he is my defense; I shall not be moved. 7In God is my salvation and my glory: the rock of my strength, and my refuge, is in God. 8Trust in him at all times; you people, pour out your heart before him: God is a refuge for us. Selah. 9Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity. 10Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery: if riches increase, set not your heart on them. 11God has spoken once; twice have I heard this; that power belongs to God. 12Also to you, O Lord, belongs mercy: for you render to every man according to his work. Parallel Verses American Standard Version
Trust not in oppression, And become not vain in robbery: If riches increase, set not your heart thereon .
Douay-Rheims Bible
Trust not in iniquity, and cover not robberies: if riches abound, set not your heart upon them.
Darby Bible Translation
Put not confidence in oppression, and become not vain in robbery; if wealth increase, set not your heart upon it.
King James Bible
Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery: if riches increase, set not your heart upon them.
Young's Literal Translation
Trust not in oppression, And in robbery become not vain, Wealth -- when it increaseth -- set not the heart.
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