We shall find all kinds of precious possessions, We shall fill our houses with spoil;
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:
- 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;
- 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 those who are determined to be rich fall into a temptation and a snare and many foolish and harmful lusts, such as drown men in ruin and destruction.
- Luke 12:15He said to them, “Beware! Keep yourselves from covetousness, for a man’s life doesn’t consist of the abundance of the things which he possesses.”
- Job 24:2–3There are people who remove the landmarks. They violently take away flocks, and feed them.
- Jer 22:16–17He judged the cause of the poor and needy; then it was well. Wasn’t this to know me?” says Yahweh.
- Nah 2:12The lion tore in pieces enough for his cubs, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his caves with the kill, and his dens with prey.
- Isa 10:13–14For he has said, “By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom; for I have understanding: and I have removed the boundaries of the peoples, and have robbed their treasures. Like a valiant man I have brought down their rulers.
- Prov 1:19So are the ways of everyone who is greedy for gain. It takes away the life of its owners.
- Rev 18:9–16The kings of the earth, who committed sexual immorality and lived wantonly with her, will weep and wail over her, when they look at the smoke of her burning,
- Hag 2:9‘The latter glory of this house will be greater than the former,’ says Yahweh of Armies; ‘and in this place will I give peace,’ says Yahweh of Armies.”
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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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