Psalm 62:10
New International Version
Do not trust in extortion or put vain hope in stolen goods; though your riches increase, do not set your heart on them.

New Living Translation
Don’t make your living by extortion or put your hope in stealing. And if your wealth increases, don’t make it the center of your life.

English Standard Version
Put no trust in extortion; set no vain hopes on robbery; if riches increase, set not your heart on them.

Berean Standard Bible
Place no trust in extortion, or false hope in stolen goods. If your riches increase, do not set your heart upon them.

King James Bible
Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery: if riches increase, set not your heart upon them.

New King James Version
Do not trust in oppression, Nor vainly hope in robbery; If riches increase, Do not set your heart on them.

New American Standard Bible
Do not trust in oppression, And do not vainly rely on robbery; If wealth increases, do not set your heart on it.

NASB 1995
Do not trust in oppression And do not vainly hope in robbery; If riches increase, do not set your heart upon them.

NASB 1977
Do not trust in oppression, And do not vainly hope in robbery; If riches increase, do not set your heart upon them.

Legacy Standard Bible
Do not trust in oppression And do not put vain hope in robbery; If riches increase, do not set your heart upon them.

Amplified Bible
Do not trust in oppression, And do not vainly hope in robbery; If riches increase, do not set your heart on them.

Christian Standard Bible
Place no trust in oppression or false hope in robbery. If wealth increases, don’t set your heart on it.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Place no trust in oppression, or false hope in robbery. If wealth increases, pay no attention to it.

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

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Do not trust upon oppression or rape. Do not love property when it has increased; let not your hearts rejoice in it.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Trust not in unrighteousness, and lust not after robberies: if wealth should flow in, set not your heart upon it.

Contemporary English Version
Don't trust in violence or depend on dishonesty or rely on great wealth.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Trust not in iniquity, and cover not robberies: if riches abound, set not your heart upon them.

English Revised Version
Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery: if riches increase, set not your heart thereon.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Do not count on extortion [to make you rich]. Do not hope to gain anything through robbery. When riches increase, do not depend on them.

Good News Translation
Don't put your trust in violence; don't hope to gain anything by robbery; even if your riches increase, don't depend on them.

International Standard Version
Don't trust in oppression or put false hope in stealing; if you become wealthy, do not set your heart on it.

JPS Tanakh 1917
Trust not in oppression, And put not vain hope in robbery; If riches increase, set not your heart thereon.

Literal Standard Version
Do not trust in oppression, | And do not become vain in robbery, | Do not set the heart [on] wealth when it increases.

Majority Standard Bible
Place no trust in extortion, or false hope in stolen goods. If your riches increase, do not set your heart upon them.

New American Bible
Do not trust in extortion; in plunder put no empty hope. On wealth that increases, do not set your heart.

NET Bible
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!

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

New Heart English Bible
Do not trust in oppression. Do not become vain in robbery. If riches increase, do not set your heart on them.

Webster's Bible Translation
Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery: if riches increase, set not your heart upon them.

World English Bible
Don’t trust in oppression. Don’t become vain in robbery. If riches increase, don’t set your heart on them.

Young's Literal Translation
Trust not in oppression, And in robbery become not vain, Wealth -- when it increaseth -- set not the heart.

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
Waiting on God
9Lowborn men are but a vapor, the exalted but a lie. Weighed on the scale, they go up; together they are but a vapor. 10Place no trust in extortion, or false hope in stolen goods. If your riches increase, do not set your heart upon them. 11God has spoken once; I have heard this twice: that power belongs to God,…

Cross References
Mark 10:24
And the disciples were amazed at His words. But Jesus said to them again, "Children, how hard it is to enter the kingdom of God!

Luke 12:15
And He said to them, "Watch out! Guard yourselves against every form of greed, for one's life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions."

1 Timothy 6:10
For the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil. By craving it, some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many sorrows.

1 Timothy 6:17
Instruct those who are rich in the present age not to be conceited and not to put their hope in the uncertainty of wealth, but in God, who richly provides all things for us to enjoy.

Job 31:25
if I have rejoiced in my great wealth because my hand had gained so much,

Psalm 49:6
They trust in their wealth and boast in their great riches.

Psalm 52:7
"Look at the man who did not make God his refuge, but trusted in the abundance of his wealth and strengthened himself by destruction."


Treasury of Scripture

Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery: if riches increase, set not your heart on them.

Trust

Job 20:19,29
Because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor; because he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not; …

Isaiah 28:15
Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:

Isaiah 30:12
Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon:

riches

Psalm 39:6
Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.

Psalm 52:7
Lo, this is the man that made not God his strength; but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness.

Deuteronomy 6:10-12
And it shall be, when the LORD thy God shall have brought thee into the land which he sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give thee great and goodly cities, which thou buildedst not, …

set

Psalm 91:14
Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he hath known my name.

Proverbs 23:5
Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.

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Psalm 62
1. David, professing his confidence in God, discourages his enemies
5. In the same confidence he encourages the godly
9. No trust is to be put in worldly things
11. Power and mercy belong to God














(10) If riches increase.--Even if by honest means you grow rich, distrust your wealth.

Verse 10. - Trust not in oppression (comp. ver. 3). The class that supported Absalom was the class of oppressors in Israel, whom David kept under and restrained as far as possible. The writer warns them against trusting in their power to oppress, since such strength as they have is not their own, but lent them by God. And become not vain in robbery; or, rely not vainly on robbery (Kay). Do not suppose that God will allow you to continue oppressing and robbing. Such a belief is a vain illusion. If riches increase, set not your heart upon them. Even when wealth accumulates naturally, and not as the result of ill-doing, it is not a thing to be trusted or set store by.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Place no
אַל־ (’al-)
Adverb
Strong's 408: Not

trust
תִּבְטְח֣וּ (tiḇ·ṭə·ḥū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine plural
Strong's 982: To trust, be confident, sure

in extortion,
בְעֹשֶׁק֮ (ḇə·‘ō·šeq)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 6233: Injury, fraud, distress, unjust gain

or false hope
תֶּ֫הְבָּ֥לוּ (teh·bā·lū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine plural
Strong's 1891: To act emptily, become vain

in stolen goods.
וּבְגָזֵ֪ל (ū·ḇə·ḡā·zêl)
Conjunctive waw, Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 1498: Robbery, plunder

If
כִּֽי־ (kî-)
Conjunction
Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction

your riches
חַ֤יִל ׀ (ḥa·yil)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 2428: A force, an army, wealth, virtue, valor, strength

increase,
יָנ֑וּב (yā·nūḇ)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 5107: To germinate, to, flourish, to utter

do not
אַל־ (’al-)
Adverb
Strong's 408: Not

set
תָּשִׁ֥יתוּ (tā·šî·ṯū)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - second person masculine plural
Strong's 7896: To put, set

your heart [upon them].
לֵֽב׃ (lêḇ)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 3820: The heart, the feelings, the will, the intellect, centre


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