| Proverbs 27:24 Parallel Translations |  |
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| NASB: | For riches are not forever, Nor does a crown endure to all generations. (NASB ©1995) |
| GWT: | Wealth is not forever. Nor does a crown last from one generation to the next.(GOD'S WORD®) |
| KJV: | For riches are not for ever: and doth the crown endure to every generation? |
| ASV: | For riches are not for ever: And doth the crown endure unto all generations? |
| BBE: | For wealth is not for ever, and money does not go on for all generations. |
| DBY: | for wealth is not for ever; and doth the crown endure from generation to generation? |
| ERV: | For riches are not for ever; and doth the crown endure unto all generations? |
| JPS: | For riches are not for ever; and doth the crown endure unto all generations? |
| WBS: | For riches are not for ever: and doth the crown endure to every generation? |
| WEB: | for riches are not forever, nor does even the crown endure to all generations. |
| YLT: | For riches are not to the age, Nor a crown to generation and generation. |
| Proverbs 27:24 Cross References |
| XREF: | Job 19:9 "He has stripped my honor from me And removed the crown from my head.
Psalm 89:39 You have spurned the covenant of Your servant; You have profaned his crown in the dust.
Jeremiah 13:18 Say to the king and the queen mother, "Take a lowly seat, For your beautiful crown Has come down from your head."
Lamentations 5:16 The crown has fallen from our head; Woe to us, for we have sinned!
Ezekiel 21:26 thus says the Lord GOD, 'Remove the turban and take off the crown; this will no longer be the same. Exalt that which is low and abase that which is high. (NASB ©1995) |
| Commentaries and Concordances |
| WES: | 27:24 For - What thou dost now possess, will not last always. If a man had the wealth of a kingdom, without care and diligence it would be brought to nothing. |
| MHC: | 27:15,16. The contentions of a neighbour may be like a sharp shower, troublesome for a time; the contentions of a wife are like constant rain. 17. We are cautioned to take heed whom we converse with. And directed to have in view, in conversation, to make one another wiser and better. 18. Though a calling be laborious and despised, yet those who keep to it, will find there is something to be got by it. God is a Master who has engaged to honour those who serve him faithfully. 19. One corrupt heart is like another; so are sanctified hearts: the former bear the same image of the earthly, the latter the same image of the heavenly. Let us carefully watch our own hearts, comparing them with the word of God. 20. Two things are here said to be never satisfied, death and sin. The appetites of the carnal mind for profit or pleasure are always desiring more. Those whose eyes are ever toward the Lord, are satisfied in him, and shall for ever be so. 21. Silver and gold are tried by putting them into the furnace and fining-pot; so is a man tried by praising him. 22. Some are so bad, that even severe methods do not answer the end; what remains but that they should be rejected? The new-creating power of God's grace alone is able to make a change. 23-27. We ought to have some business to do in this world, and not to live in idleness, and not to meddle with what we do not understand. We must be diligent and take pains. Let us do what we can, still the world cannot be secured to us, therefore we must choose a more lasting portion; but by the blessing of God upon our honest labours, we may expect to enjoy as much of earthly blessings as is good for us. |
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