4Riches profit not in the day of wrath: but righteousness delivereth from death.
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Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: but righteousness delivereth from death.
Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD'S wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.
And the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.
They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: 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 souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.
For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 4)Note, 1. The day of death will be a day of wrath . It is a messenger of God’s wrath; therefore when Moses had meditated on man’s mortality he takes occasion thence to admire the power of God’s anger , Ps. 90:11. It is a debt owing, not to nature, but to God’s justice. After death the judgment , and that is a day of wrath , Rev. 6:17. 2. Riches will stand men in no stead that day. They will neither…
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