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Proverbs 11:4 KJV
Proverbs · chapter 11 · verse 4
Riches profit not in the day of wrath: but righteousness delivereth from death.Proverbs 11:4 · King James Version
Proverbs 11:4 in context
2When pride cometh, then cometh shame: but with the lowly is wisdom.
3The integrity of the upright shall guide them: but the perverseness of transgressors shall destroy them.
4Riches profit not in the day of wrath: but righteousness delivereth from death.
5The righteousness of the perfect shall direct his way: but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.
6The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them: but transgressors shall be taken in their own naughtiness.
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Key words (Strong's)
- righteousnesstsᵉdâqâhrightness , subjectively , objectively , morally or figurativelyH6666 →
- deliverethnâtsalto snatch away, whether in a good or a bad senseH5337 →
- RicheshôwnwealthH1952 →
- profityaʻalproperly, to ascendH3276 →
- wrathʻebrâhan outburst of passionH5678 →
- dayyôwma day , whether literal , or figurativeH3117 →
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Note, 1. The day of death will be a day of wrath. It is a messenger of God's wrath; therefore when Moses had meditated on man's mortality he takes occasion thence to admire the power of God's anger, Psa 110:1-7 :11. It is a debt owing, not to nature, but to God's justice.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary