Proverbs 11:4 {5}
Good News Translation
Riches will do you no good on the day you face death, but honesty can save your life.

New Revised Standard Version
Riches do not profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death.

Contemporary English Version
When God is angry, money won't help you. Obeying God is the only way to be saved from death.

New American Bible
Wealth is useless on a day of wrath, but justice saves from death.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The justice of the upright shall make his way prosperous: and the wicked man shall fall by his own wickedness.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The justice of the upright shall make his way prosperous: and the wicked man shall fall by his own wickedness.

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Proverbs 10:2 The Lord will not afflict the soul of the just with famine, and he will disappoint the deceitful practices of the wicked.

Job 36:18,19 Therefore let not anger overcome thee to oppress any man: neither let multitude of gifts turn thee aside. . . .

Psalm 49:6-8 They that trust in their own strength, and glory in the multitude of their riches, . . .

Ezekiel 7:19 Their silver shall be cast forth, and their gold shall become a dunghill. Their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the Lord. They shall not satisfy their soul, and their bellies shall not be filled: because it hath been the stumblingblock of their iniquity.

Zephaniah 1:18 Neither shall their silver and their gold be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the Lord: all the land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy destruction of all them that dwell in the land.

Matthew 16:26 For what doth it profit a man, if he gain the whole world and suffer the loss of his own soul? Or what exchange shall a man give for his soul?

Luke 12:20 But God said to him: Thou fool, this night do they require thy soul of thee. And whose shall those things be which thou hast provided?

Luke 12:28 Now, if God clothe in this manner the grass that is to-day in the field and to-morrow is cast into the oven: how much more you, O ye of little faith?

Genesis 7:1 And the Lord said to him: Go in, thou and all thy house, into the ark: for thee I have seen just before me in this generation.

Romans 5:17 For if by one man's offence death reigned through one; much more they who receive abundance of grace and of the gift and of justice shall reign in life through one, Jesus Christ.

1 Timothy 4:8 For bodily exercise is profitable to little: but godliness is profitable to all things, having promise of the life that now is and of that which is to come.

Context
Dishonest Scales
3Riches shall not profit in the day of revenge: but justice shall deliver from death. 4The justice of the upright shall make his way prosperous: and the wicked man shall fall by his own wickedness.5The justice of the righteous shall deliver them: and the unjust shall be caught in their own snares.…
Cross References
Genesis 7:1
And the Lord said to him: Go in, thou and all thy house, into the ark: for thee I have seen just before me in this generation.

Proverbs 6:34
Nor will he yield to any man's prayers, nor will he accept for satisfaction ever so many gifts.

Proverbs 10:2
The Lord will not afflict the soul of the just with famine, and he will disappoint the deceitful practices of the wicked.

Ezekiel 7:19
Their silver shall be cast forth, and their gold shall become a dunghill. Their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the Lord. They shall not satisfy their soul, and their bellies shall not be filled: because it hath been the stumblingblock of their iniquity.

Zephaniah 1:18
Neither shall their silver and their gold be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the Lord: all the land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy destruction of all them that dwell in the land.

Proverbs 11:3
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