Psalms 62:10
Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery: if riches increase, set not your heart upon them.
Context
This verse from Psalms Chapter 62 connects to 10 cross-references. A psalm of David expressing quiet trust in God alone as rock, salvation, and fortress amid enemies who scheme. The repeated exhortation 'For God alone, O my soul, wait in silence' frames a meditation on the vanity of trusting in …
Other Translations
Trust not in oppression, And become not vain in robbery: If riches increase, set not your heart thereon.
Trust not in oppression, And in robbery become not vain, Wealth--when it increaseth--set not the heart.
Have no faith in the rewards of evil-doing, or in profits wrongly made: if your wealth is increased, do not put your hopes on it.
Cross References
Then thine heart be lifted up, and thou forget the Lord thy God, which brought thee forth out of the …
Lest when thou hast eaten and art full, and hast built goodly houses, and dwelt therein;
Then beware lest thou forget the Lord, which brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, from the house …
And it shall be, when the Lord thy God shall have brought thee into the land which he sware unto …
If I rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because mine hand had gotten much;
If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold, Thou art my confidence;
Men shall clap their hands at him, and shall hiss him out of his place.
Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare raiment as the clay;
This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed unto him by God.
Because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor; because he hath violently taken away an house which he builded …