Psalm 62:10 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁰ Put no confidence in extortion, and set no vain hopes on robbery; if riches increase, do not set your heart on them.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁰ Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery: If riches increase, set not your heart upon them.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁰ Trust not in and rely confidently not on extortion and oppression, and do not vainly hope in robbery; if riches increase, set not your heart on them.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁰ Trust not in oppression, And become not vain in robbery: If riches increase, set not your heart thereon.

Common English Bible

¹⁰ Don’t trust in violence; don’t set false hopes in robbery. When wealth bears fruit, don’t set your heart on it.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁰ Truly, these ones have sought my soul in vain. They will enter into the lower parts of the earth.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁰ But they have sought my soul in vain, they shall go into the lower parts of the earth:

Psalm 62:10 Cross References

Job 20:19

For they have crushed and abandoned the poor; they have seized a house that they did not build.

Job 20:29

This is the portion of the wicked from God, the heritage decreed for them by God.”

Psalm 39:6

Surely everyone goes about like a shadow. Surely for nothing they are in turmoil; they heap up and do not know who will gather.

Psalm 4:3

But know that the Lord has set apart the faithful for himself; the Lord hears when I call to him.

Psalm 49:6

those who trust in their wealth and boast of the abundance of their riches?

Psalm 52:7

“See the one who would not take refuge in God but trusted in abundant riches and sought refuge in wealth!”

Psalm 91:14

Those who love me, I will deliver; I will protect those who know my name.

Proverbs 23:5

When your eyes light upon it, it is gone, for suddenly it takes wings to itself, flying like an eagle toward heaven.

Isaiah 28:15

Because you have said, “We have made a covenant with death, and with Sheol we have an agreement; when the overwhelming scourge passes through it will not come to us, for we have made lies our refuge, and in falsehood we have taken shelter”;

Isaiah 30:12

Therefore thus says the Holy One of Israel: Because you reject this word and put your trust in oppression and deceit and rely on them,

Isaiah 40:15

Even the nations are like a drop from a bucket and are accounted as dust on the scales; see, he takes up the isles like fine dust.

Isaiah 40:17

All the nations are as nothing before him; they are accounted by him as less than nothing and emptiness.

Isaiah 47:10

You felt secure in your wickedness; you said, “No one sees me.” Your wisdom and your knowledge led you astray, and you said in your heart, “I am, and there is no one besides me.”

Isaiah 59:4

No one brings suit justly; no one goes to law honestly; they rely on empty pleas; they speak lies, conceiving mischief and bearing iniquity.

Isaiah 61:8

For I, the Lord, love justice, I hate robbery and wrongdoing; I will faithfully give them their recompense, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.

Jeremiah 13:25

This is your lot, the portion I have measured out to you, says the Lord, because you have forgotten me and trusted in lies.

Jeremiah 17:11

Like the partridge hatching what it did not lay, so are all who amass wealth unjustly; in midlife it will leave them, and at their end they will prove to be fools.

Mark 10:23

Then Jesus looked around and said to his disciples, “How hard it will be for those who have wealth to enter the kingdom of God!”

1 Timothy 6:10

For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, and in their eagerness to be rich some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pains.

1 Timothy 6:17

As for those who in the present age are rich, command them not to be haughty or to set their hopes on the uncertainty of riches but rather on God, who richly provides us with everything for our enjoyment.