Job 31:24
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“If I have put my trust in gold or called pure gold my security,”
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BSBPD
“If I have put my trust in gold or called pure gold my security,”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)KJVPD
“If I have made gold my hope, or have said to the fine gold, Thou art my confidence;”
King James Version · Public DomainASVPD
“If I have made gold my hope, And have said to the fine gold, Thou artmy confidence;”
American Standard Version · Public DomainYLTPD
“If I have made gold my confidence, And to the pure gold have said, `My trust,'”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainCross references
Other passages that echo Job 31:24 — 14 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 31:1Now Jacob heard that Laban’s sons were saying, “Jacob has taken away all that belonged to our father and built all this wealth at our father’s expense.”
- Deuteronomy 8:12Otherwise, when you eat and are satisfied, when you build fine houses in which to dwell,
- Psalms 49:6They trust in their wealth and boast in their great riches.
- Psalms 49:17For when he dies, he will carry nothing away; his abundance will not follow him down.
- Psalms 52:7“Look at the man who did not make God his refuge, but trusted in the abundance of his wealth and strengthened himself by destruction.”
- Psalms 62:10Place no trust in extortion, or false hope in stolen goods. If your riches increase, do not set your heart upon them.
- Proverbs 10:15The wealth of the rich man is his fortified city, but poverty is the ruin of the poor.
- Proverbs 11:28He who trusts in his riches will fall, but the righteous will thrive like foliage.
- Proverbs 30:9Otherwise, I may have too much and deny You, saying, ‘Who is the LORD?’ Or I may become poor and steal, profaning the name of my God.
- Mark 10:24And the disciples were amazed at His words. But Jesus said to them again, “Children, how hard it is to enter the kingdom of God!
- Luke 12:15And He said to them, “Watch out! Guard yourselves against every form of greed, for one’s life does not consist in the abundance of his possessions.”
- Colossians 3:5Put to death, therefore, the components of your earthly nature: sexual immorality, impurity, lust, evil desires, and greed, which is idolatry.
- 1 Timothy 6:10For the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil. By craving it, some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many sorrows.
- 1 Timothy 6:17Instruct those who are rich in the present age not to be conceited and not to put their hope in the uncertainty of wealth, but in God, who richly provides all things for us to enjoy.
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