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Good News Translation

Proverbs 27:24

because wealth is not permanent. Not even nations last forever.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Agriculture;   Industry;   Riches;   Thompson Chain Reference - Poverty-Riches;   Riches, Earthly;   The Topic Concordance - Diligence;   Endurance;   Wealth;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Agriculture or Husbandry;   Riches;  

Dictionaries:

- Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Pardon;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Proverbs, Book of;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Greek Versions of Ot;   Proverbs, Book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Crown;   Proverb;   Proverbs, Book of;   Riches;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Crown;  

Devotionals:

- Daily Light on the Daily Path - Devotion for March 29;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
for wealth is not forever;not even a crown lasts for all time.
Hebrew Names Version
For riches are not forever, Nor does even the crown endure to all generations.
King James Version
For riches are not for ever: and doth the crown endure to every generation?
English Standard Version
for riches do not last forever; and does a crown endure to all generations?
New American Standard Bible
For riches are not forever, Nor does a crown endure to all generations.
New Century Version
Riches will not go on forever, nor do governments go on forever.
Amplified Bible
For riches are not forever, Nor does a crown endure to all generations.
World English Bible
For riches are not forever, Nor does even the crown endure to all generations.
Geneva Bible (1587)
For riches remaine not alway, nor the crowne from generation to generation.
Legacy Standard Bible
For wealth is not forever,Neither is a crown from generation to generation.
Berean Standard Bible
for riches are not forever, nor does a crown endure to every generation.
Contemporary English Version
because wealth and honor don't last forever.
Complete Jewish Bible
For wealth doesn't last forever, neither does a crown through all generations.
Darby Translation
for wealth is not for ever; and doth the crown [endure] from generation to generation?
Easy-to-Read Version
Neither wealth nor nations last forever.
George Lamsa Translation
Possessions are not for ever; nor can riches be handed down from one generation to another.
Lexham English Bible
For riches are not forever, nor a crown for generation after generation.
Literal Translation
for wealth is not forever, nor the crown from generation to generation.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
For riches abyde not allwaye, & the crowne endureth not for euer.
American Standard Version
For riches are not for ever; And doth the crown endure unto all generations?
Bible in Basic English
For wealth is not for ever, and money does not go on for all generations.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
For riches are not for ever; and doth the crown endure unto all generations?
King James Version (1611)
For riches are not for euer: and doth the crowne endure to euery generation?
Bishop's Bible (1568)
For riches abideth not alway, and the crowne endureth not for euer.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
It is better to dwell on a corner of the roof, than with a railing woman in an open house.
English Revised Version
For riches are not for ever; and doth the crown endure unto all generations?
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For thou schalt not haue power contynueli; but a coroun schal be youun to thee in generacioun and in to generacioun.
Update Bible Version
For riches are not forever: And does the crown endure to all generations?
Webster's Bible Translation
For riches [are] not for ever: and doth the crown [endure] to every generation?
New English Translation
for riches do not last forever, nor does a crown last from generation to generation.
New King James Version
For riches are not forever, Nor does a crown endure to all generations.
New Living Translation
for riches don't last forever, and the crown might not be passed to the next generation.
New Life Bible
Riches do not last forever, and a crown does not pass from family to family.
New Revised Standard
for riches do not last forever, nor a crown for all generations.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
For, not age-abiding, are riches, nor is the diadem, from generation to generation: -
Douay-Rheims Bible
For thou shalt not always have power: but a crown shall be given to generation and generation.
Revised Standard Version
for riches do not last for ever; and does a crown endure to all generations?
Young's Literal Translation
For riches [are] not to the age, Nor a crown to generation and generation.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
For riches are not forever, Nor does a crown endure to all generations.

Contextual Overview

23 Look after your sheep and cattle as carefully as you can, 24 because wealth is not permanent. Not even nations last forever. 25 You cut the hay and then cut the grass on the hillsides while the next crop of hay is growing. 26 You can make clothes from the wool of your sheep and buy land with the money you get from selling some of your goats. 27 The rest of the goats will provide milk for you and your family, and for your servant women as well.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

For: Proverbs 23:5, Zephaniah 1:18, 1 Timothy 6:17, 1 Timothy 6:18

riches: Heb. strength, James 1:10

doth: 2 Samuel 7:16, Psalms 89:36, Isaiah 9:7

every generation: Heb. generation and generation

Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 17:20 - right hand Psalms 39:6 - he heapeth 1 Timothy 6:7 - we brought

Cross-References

Genesis 27:7
‘Bring me an animal and cook it for me. After I have eaten it, I will give you my blessing in the presence of the Lord before I die.'
Genesis 27:8
Now, son," Rebecca continued, "listen to me and do what I say.
1 Samuel 21:2
"I am here on the king's business," David answered. "He told me not to let anyone know what he sent me to do. As for my men, I have told them to meet me at a certain place.
1 Samuel 21:13
So whenever David was around them, he pretended to be insane and acted like a madman when they tried to restrain him; he would scribble on the city gates and let spit drool down his beard.
1 Samuel 27:10
who would ask him, "Where did you go on a raid this time?" and David would tell him that he had gone to the southern part of Judah or to the territory of the clan of Jerahmeel or to the territory where the Kenites lived.
2 Samuel 14:5
"What do you want?" he asked her. "I am a poor widow, sir," she answered. "My husband is dead.
Job 15:5
Your wickedness is evident by what you say; you are trying to hide behind clever words.
Proverbs 12:19
A lie has a short life, but truth lives on forever.
Proverbs 12:22
The Lord hates liars, but is pleased with those who keep their word.
Proverbs 30:8
keep me from lying, and let me be neither rich nor poor. So give me only as much food as I need.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

For riches [are] not for ever,.... A man cannot be assured of the continuance of them; they are uncertain things, here today and gone tomorrow: wherefore, though a man has a considerable share of them, yet should follow one calling or another; particularly husbandry is recommended, or keeping sheep and cattle, which are increasing; by which means his substance will be continued and augmented, which otherwise is not to be depended on, but in a diligent attendance to business;

and doth the crown [endure] to every generation? the royal crown, that is not to be depended upon; a king that wears a crown is not sure he shall always wear it, or that it shall be continued to his family one generation after another. And it is suggested, that it is not even beneath such persons to have a regard to their flocks and herds, and the increase of their riches in this way: the Chinese kings, many of them, formerly employed themselves in husbandry, and set examples of industry and diligence to their subjects t; King Hezekiah provided himself possessions of flocks and herds in abundance, 2 Chronicles 32:28.

t Vid. Martin. Hist. Sinica, p. 92, 93, 326.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The verses sing the praises of the earlier patriarchal life, with its flocks and herds, and tillage of the ground, as compared with the commerce of a later time, with money as its chief or only wealth.

Proverbs 27:23

The state - literally, face. The verse is an illustration of John 10:3, John 10:14.

Proverbs 27:24

Riches - The money which men may steal, or waste, is contrasted with the land of which the owner is not so easily deprived. Nor will the crown (both the “crown of pure gold” worn on the mitre of the high priest, Exodus 29:6; Exodus 39:30; and the kingly diadem, the symbol of power generally) be transmitted (as flocks and herds had been) “from one generation to another.”

Proverbs 27:25

Appeareth - Better, When the grass disappeareth, the “tender grass showeth itself.” Stress is laid on the regular succession of the products of the earth. The “grass” (“hay”) of the first clause is (compare Psalms 37:2; Psalms 90:5; Psalms 103:15; 2 Kings 19:26) the proverbial type of what is perishable and fleeting. The verse gives a picture of the pleasantness of the farmer’s calling; compared with this what can wealth or rank offer? With this there mingles (compare Proverbs 27:23) the thought that each stage of that life in its season requires care and watchfulness.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Proverbs 27:24. For riches are not for ever — All other kinds of property are very transitory. Money and the highest civil honours are but for a short season. Flocks and herds, properly attended to, may be multiplied and continued from generation to generation. The crown itself is not naturally so permanent.


 
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