கொடுமையை நம்பாதிருங்கள், கொள்ளையினால் பெருமை பாராட்டாதிருங்கள்; ஐசுவரியம் விருத்தியானால் இருதயத்தை அதின்மேல் வைக்காதேயுங்கள்.
Other Translations
King James Version (KJV)
Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery: if riches increase, set not your heart upon them.
American Standard Version (ASV)
Trust not in oppression, And become not vain in robbery: If riches increase, set not your heart `thereon’.
Bible in Basic English (BBE)
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.
Darby English Bible (DBY)
Put not confidence in oppression, and become not vain in robbery; if wealth increase, set not your heart upon it.
Webster’s Bible (WBT)
Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity.
World English Bible (WEB)
Don’t trust in oppression. Don’t become vain in robbery. If riches increase, Don’t set your heart on them.
Young’s Literal Translation (YLT)
Trust not in oppression, And in robbery become not vain, Wealth — when it increaseth — set not the heart.
Cross Reference
Mark 8:36
For what shall it profit a man, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul?
Isaiah 47:10
For thou hast trusted in thy wickedness: thou hast said, None seeth me. Thy wisdom and thy knowledge, it hath perverted thee; and thou hast said in thine heart, I am, and none else beside me.
Isaiah 59:4
None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.
Isaiah 61:8
For I the LORD love judgment, I hate robbery for burnt offering; and I will direct their work in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.
Jeremiah 13:25
This is thy lot, the portion of thy measures from me, saith the LORD; because thou hast forgotten me, and trusted in falsehood.
Jeremiah 17:11
As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not; so he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool.
Mark 10:23
And Jesus looked round about, and saith unto his disciples, How hardly shall they that have riches enter into the kingdom of God!
Luke 12:15
And he said unto them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man’s life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.
1 Timothy 6:10
For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
1 Timothy 6:17
Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not highminded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy;
Isaiah 28:15
Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:
Proverbs 23:5
Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.
Deuteronomy 6:10
And it shall be, when the LORD thy God shall have brought thee into the land which he sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give thee great and goodly cities, which thou buildedst not,
Deuteronomy 8:12
Lest when thou hast eaten and art full, and hast built goodly houses, and dwelt therein;
Job 20:19
Because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor; because he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not;
Job 20:29
This is the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed unto him by God.
Job 27:16
Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare raiment as the clay;
Job 31:24
If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold, Thou art my confidence;
Psalm 39:6
Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.
Psalm 49:6
They that trust in their wealth, and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches;
Psalm 91:14
Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will set him on high, because he hath known my name.
Psalm 52:7
Lo, this is the man that made not God his strength; but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness.
Isaiah 30:12
Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon:
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