We will find all manner of precious goods; we will fill our houses with plunder.
Parallel translations
- WEB We’ll find all valuable wealth. We’ll fill our houses with plunder.
- KJV We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil:
- NKJV We shall find all kinds of precious possessions, We shall fill our houses with spoil;
- NASB We will find all kinds of precious wealth, We will fill our houses with plunder;
- NLT Think of the great things we’ll get! We’ll fill our houses with all the stuff we take.
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Quick answer
The enticers promise rich plunder filling their houses. It matters because it shows how greed makes sin's reward look attractive.
Overview
The lure is wealth gained through violence and theft, presented as effortless gain. Sin baits the heart with promised prosperity while hiding its true cost. Scripture repeatedly warns that ill-gotten gain cannot satisfy and leads to ruin, contrasting the lasting riches of wisdom (vv. 13-19).
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 9
- 1 Tim 6:9–10Those who want to be rich, however, fall into temptation and become ensnared by many foolish and harmful desires that plunge them into ruin and destruction.
- 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.”
- Job 24:2–3Men move boundary stones; they pasture stolen flocks.
- Jer 22:16–17He took up the cause of the poor and needy, and so it went well with him. Is this not what it means to know Me?” declares the LORD.
- Nah 2:12The lion mauled enough for its cubs and strangled prey for the lioness. It filled its dens with the kill, and its lairs with mauled prey.
- Isa 10:13–14For he says: ‘By the strength of my hand I have done this, and by my wisdom, for I am clever. I have removed the boundaries of nations and plundered their treasures; like a mighty one I subdued their rulers.
- Prov 1:19Such is the fate of all who are greedy, whose unjust gain takes the lives of its possessors.
- Rev 18:9–16Then the kings of the earth who committed sexual immorality and lived in luxury with her will weep and wail at the sight of the smoke rising from the fire that consumes her.
- Hag 2:9The latter glory of this house will be greater than the former, says the LORD of Hosts. And in this place I will provide peace, declares the LORD of Hosts.”
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Wisdom personified, with God before creation and the agent of all things, anticipates Christ 'in whom are hidden all the treasures of wisdom' — the wisdom of God made flesh.
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