New English Translation
Psalms 62:10
10Do not trust in what you can gain by oppression! Do not put false confidence in what you can gain by robbery! If wealth increases, do not become attached to it!
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 shelter! (Selah) 9Men are nothing but a mere breath; human beings are unreliable. When they are weighed in the scales, all of them together are lighter than air. Do not trust in what you can gain by oppression! Do not put false confidence in what you can gain by robbery! If wealth increases, do not become attached to it! 11God has declared one principle; two principles I have heard: God is strong, 12and you, O Lord, demonstrate loyal love. For you repay men for what they do.
Read all of Psalms 62Psalms 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 has oppressed the poor and abandoned them; he has seized a house which he did not build.
- Isaiah 28:15For you say, “We have made a treaty with death, with Sheol we have made an agreement. When the overwhelming judgment sweeps by it will not reach us. For we have made a lie our refuge, we have hidden ourselves in a deceitful word.”
- Isaiah 30:12For this reason this is what the Holy One of Israel says: “You have rejected this message; you trust instead in your ability to oppress and trick, and rely on that kind of behavior.
- Isaiah 47:10You were complacent in your evil deeds; you thought, ‘No one sees me.’ Your self-professed wisdom and knowledge lead you astray, when you say, ‘I am unique! No one can compare to me!’
- Isaiah 59:4No one is concerned about justice; no one sets forth his case truthfully. They depend on false words and tell lies; they conceive of oppression and give birth to sin.
- Jeremiah 13:25This is your fate, the destiny to which I have appointed you, because you have forgotten me and have trusted in false gods.
- Jeremiah 17:11The person who gathers wealth by unjust means is like the partridge that broods over eggs but does not hatch them. Before his life is half over he will lose his ill-gotten gains. At the end of his life it will be clear he was a fool.”
- Psalms 39:6Surely people go through life as mere ghosts. Surely they accumulate worthless wealth without knowing who will eventually haul it away.”
- Psalms 52:7“Look, here is the man who would not make God his protector! He trusted in his great wealth and was confident about his plans to destroy others.”
- Deuteronomy 6:10Then when the Lord your God brings you to the land he promised your ancestors Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob to give you – a land with large, fine cities you did not build,
- Deuteronomy 8:12When you eat your fill, when you build and occupy good houses,
- Job 27:16If he piles up silver like dust and stores up clothing like mounds of clay,
- Job 31:24“If I have put my confidence in gold or said to pure gold, ‘You are my security!’
- Mark 8:36For what benefit is it for a person to gain the whole world, yet forfeit his life?
- Mark 10:23Then Jesus looked around and said to his disciples, “How hard it is for the rich to enter the kingdom of God!”
- Luke 12:15Then he said to them, “Watch out and guard yourself from all types of greed, because one’s life does not consist 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
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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
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