The Perils of Prosperity
Psalm 30:6-12
And in my prosperity I said, I shall never be moved.…


For quaintly said of the elder Pitt that he "fell up-stairs" when he was elevated to the peerage. Many a man cannot stand going up higher.. He becomes haughty, proud; he affects dignity, he lords it over God's heritage; he becomes too big with conscious superiority. Like Jeshurun, he waxes fat and kicks. He falls up-stairs; up, not down.

(A. S. Pierson, D. D.)



Parallel Verses
KJV: And in my prosperity I said, I shall never be moved.

WEB: As for me, I said in my prosperity, "I shall never be moved."




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