Then Adonai said to Noah, “Come—you and all your household—into the ark. For you only do I perceive as righteous before Me in this generation.
Proverbs 11:4 - Tree of Life Version Riches make no profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Riches profit not in the day of wrath: But righteousness delivereth from death. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Riches provide no security in any day of wrath and judgment, but righteousness (uprightness and right standing with God) delivers from death. [Prov. 10:2; Zeph. 1:18.] American Standard Version (1901) Riches profit not in the day of wrath; But righteousness delivereth from death. Common English Bible Riches don’t help in the day of wrath, but righteousness rescues from death. Catholic Public Domain Version Wealth will not profit in the day of vengeance. But justice shall liberate from death. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Riches shall not profit in the day of revenge: but justice shall deliver from death. |
Then Adonai said to Noah, “Come—you and all your household—into the ark. For you only do I perceive as righteous before Me in this generation.
A flood will carry off his house, rushing waters on the day of His wrath.
Ill-gotten treasures profit nothing, but righteousness delivers from death.
For jealousy enrages a man and he will show no mercy in the day of revenge.
What will you do in the day of visitation, when desolation comes from afar? To whom will you flee for help? Where will you leave your wealth?
Even if these three men—Noah, Daniel and Job—be in it, they would only deliver their own souls by their righteousness.” It is a declaration of Adonai.
They will throw their silver in the streets. Their gold will be as garbage. Their silver and their gold cannot deliver them in the day of Adonai’s wrath. They will not satisfy their appetite or fill their bellies, for their iniquity is a stumbling block.
Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to rescue them on the day of Adonai’s wrath. With the fire of His passion the entire earth will be consumed. For He will make a total, dreadful annihilation of all the inhabitants of the earth.
For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world but forfeits his soul? Or what will a man give in exchange for his soul?
But God said to him, ‘You fool! Tonight your soul is being demanded back from you! And what you have prepared, whose will that be?’
For if by the one man’s transgression, death reigned through the one, how much more shall those who receive the overflow of grace and the gift of righteousness reign in life through the One, Messiah Yeshua.
For physical exercise has some benefit; but godliness is beneficial for all things, holding promise for both the present life and the one to come.