Psalms 62:10

Psalms 62:10 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery: if riches increase, set not your heart upon them.
• New International Version (NIV)Do not trust in extortion or put vain hope in stolen goods; though your riches increase, do not set your heart on them.
• English Standard Version (ESV)Put no trust in extortion; set no vain hopes on robbery; if riches increase, set not your heart on them.
• New King James Version (NKJV)Do not trust in oppression, Nor vainly hope in robbery; If riches increase, Do not set your heart on them.

Context of Psalms 62:10

8Trust in him at all times, you people; pour out your hearts before him. God is our refuge.Selah 9Common people are only a vapor; important people, an illusion. Together on a scale, they weigh less than a vapor. Place no trust in oppression or false hope in robbery. If wealth increases, don’t set your heart on it. 11God has spoken once; I have heard this twice: strength belongs to God, 12and faithful love belongs to you, Lord. For you repay each according to his works.

Psalms 62:10 word by word

אַל־תִּבְטְח֣וּ בְעֹשֶׁק֮ וּבְגָזֵ֪ל אַל־תֶּ֫הְבָּ֥לוּ חַ֤יִל׀ כִּֽי־יָנ֑וּב אַל־תָּשִׁ֥יתוּ לֵֽב׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Trustבָּטַחbâţach · to trustH982
• not in oppressionעֹ֫שֶׁק‛ôsheq · oppressionH6233
• and become not vainהָבַלhâbal · to become vainH1891
• in robberyגָּזֵלgâzêl · robberyH1498
• if richesחַ֫יִלchayil · strength: richH2428
• increaseנוּבnûb · to bear fruitH5107
• setשִׁיתshîyth · to set: makeH7896
• not your heartלֵבlêb · heartH3820

Cross-references for Psalms 62:10

• Job 20:19For he oppressed and abandoned the poor; he seized a house he did not build.
• Isaiah 28:15For you said, “We have made a covenant with Death, and we have an agreement with Sheol; when the overwhelming catastrophe passes through, it will not touch us, because we have made falsehood our refuge and have hidden behind treachery.”
• Isaiah 30:12Therefore the Holy One of Israel says: “Because you have rejected this message and have trusted in oppression and deceit, and have depended on them,
• Isaiah 47:10You were secure in your wickedness; you said, ‘No one sees me.’ Your wisdom and knowledge led you astray. You said to yourself, ‘I am, and there is no one else.’
• Isaiah 59:4No one makes claims justly; no one pleads honestly. They trust in empty and worthless words; they conceive trouble and give birth to iniquity.
• Jeremiah 13:25This is your lot, what I have decreed for you — this is the Lord’s declaration — because you have forgotten me and trusted in lies.
• Jeremiah 17:11He who makes a fortune unjustly is like a partridge that hatches eggs it didn’t lay. In the middle of his life his riches will abandon him, so in the end he will be a fool.
• Psalms 39:6Yes, a person goes about like a mere shadow. Indeed, they rush around in vain, gathering possessions without knowing who will get them.
• Psalms 52:7“Here is the man who would not make God his refuge, but trusted in the abundance of his riches, taking refuge in his destructive behavior.”
• Deuteronomy 6:10“When the Lord your God brings you into the land he swore to your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob that he would give you — a land with large and beautiful cities that you did not build,
• Deuteronomy 8:12When you eat and are full, and build beautiful houses to live in,
• Job 27:16Though he piles up silver like dust and heaps up fine clothing like clay —
• Job 31:24If I placed my confidence in gold or called fine gold my trust,
• Mark 8:36For what does it benefit someone to gain the whole world and yet lose his life?
• Mark 10:23Jesus looked around and said to his disciples, “How hard it is for those who have wealth to enter the kingdom of God!”
• Luke 12:15He then told them, “Watch out and be on guard against all greed, because one’s life is not in the abundance of his possessions.”

Commentaries on Psalms 62:10

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 10Trust not in oppression - Do not suppose that my unnatural son and his partisans can succeed. Become not vain in robbery - If ye have laid your hands on the spoils of my house, do not imagine that these ill-gotten riches will prosper. God will soon scatter them to all the winds of heaven. All oppressors come to an untimely end; and all property acquired by injustice has God's curse on it.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 10Trust not in oppression - The general meaning here is, that we are not to trust in anything but God. In the previous verse the psalmist had stated reasons why we should not trust in men of any rank. In this verse he enumerates several things on which people are accustomed to rely, or in which they place confidence, and he says that we should put no confidence in them in respect to the help which we need, or the great objects which are to be accomplished…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 8-12Verses 8-12 Those who have found the comfort of the ways of God themselves, will invite others into those ways; we shall never have the less for others sharing with us. the good counsel given is, to trust wholly in God. We must so trust in him at all times, as not at any time to put that trust in ourselves, or in any creature, which is to be put in him only. Trust in him to guide us when in doubt, to protect us when in danger, to supply us when in want…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 10Extortion involves using threats to force someone to give up their belongings. Stealing means taking what belongs to someone else.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1010. Not only are oppression and robbery, which are wicked means of wealth, no grounds of boasting; but even wealth, increasing lawfully, ought not to engross the heart.Read the comment

Topics related to Psalms 62:10

• Dishonesty
• Oppression
• Theft and Thieves

In the dictionaries

• Expectation
• Imagine
• Jeduthun
• Psalms
• Korahites; Sons of Korah
• Psalms, Book of
• Riches
• Robber; Robbery
• Set

Commentaries on Psalms 62

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• The Treasury of David
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings