We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil:
Parallel translations
- WEB We’ll find all valuable wealth. We’ll fill our houses with plunder.
- BSB We will find all manner of precious goods; we will fill our houses with plunder.
- ESV we shall find all precious goods, we shall fill our houses with plunder;
- 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 6:9–10But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.
- Luke 12:15And 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.
- Job 24:2–3Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed thereof.
- Jer 22:16–17He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well with him: was not this to know me? saith the LORD.
- Nah 2:12The lion did tear in pieces enough for his whelps, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his holes with prey, and his dens with ravin.
- Isa 10:13–14For he saith, By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom; for I am prudent: and I have removed the bounds of the people, and have robbed their treasures, and I have put down the inhabitants like a valiant man:
- Prov 1:19So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.
- Rev 18:9–16And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and lament for her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning,
- Hag 2:9The glory of this latter house shall be greater than of the former, saith the LORD of hosts: and in this place will I give peace, saith 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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