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4Riches profit not in the day of wrath: but righteousness delivereth from death.

Proverbs 11:4

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Matthew Henry

(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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