For the wicked boasts of his heart’s cravings. He blesses the greedy, and condemns Yahweh.
Parallel translations
- KJV For the wicked boasteth of his heart’s desire, and blesseth the covetous, whom the LORD abhorreth.
- BSB For the wicked man boasts in the cravings of his heart; he blesses the greedy and reviles the LORD.
- NKJV For the wicked boasts of his heart’s desire; He blesses the greedy and renounces the Lord.
- NASB ¶For the wicked boasts of his soul’s desire, And the greedy person curses and shows disrespect to the Lord.
- NLT For they brag about their evil desires; they praise the greedy and curse the Lord.
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- Ps 94:4They pour out arrogant words. All the evildoers boast.
- Luke 12:19I will tell my soul, “Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years. Take your ease, eat, drink, be merry.”’
- Zech 11:5–8Their buyers slaughter them, and go unpunished. Those who sell them say, ‘Blessed be Yahweh, for I am rich;’ and their own shepherds don’t pity them.
- Mic 6:10–12Are there yet treasures of wickedness in the house of the wicked, and a short ephah that is accursed?
- Job 31:24“If I have made gold my hope, and have said to the fine gold, ‘You are my confidence;’
- Prov 28:4Those who forsake the law praise the wicked; but those who keep the law contend with them.
- Ps 49:6Those who trust in their wealth, and boast in the multitude of their riches —
- Ps 5:6You will destroy those who speak lies. Yahweh abhors the bloodthirsty and deceitful man.
- Deut 29:19and it happen, when he hears the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, “I shall have peace, though I walk in the stubbornness of my heart, to destroy the moist with the dry.”
- Ps 49:11–13Their inward thought is that their houses will endure forever, and their dwelling places to all generations. They name their lands after themselves.
- Isa 37:23Whom have you defied and blasphemed? Against whom have you exalted your voice and lifted up your eyes on high? Against the Holy One of Israel.
- Ps 35:21Yes, they opened their mouth wide against me. They said, “Aha! Aha! Our eye has seen it!”
- Exod 15:9The enemy said, ‘I will pursue. I will overtake. I will divide the plunder. My desire shall be satisfied on them. I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.’
- Eph 5:5Know this for sure, that no sexually immoral person, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, has any inheritance in the Kingdom of Christ and God.
- Isa 57:17I was angry because of the iniquity of his covetousness, and struck him; I hid myself and was angry; and he went on backsliding in the way of his heart.
- Lev 26:30I will destroy your high places, and cut down your incense altars, and cast your dead bodies upon the bodies of your idols; and my soul will abhor you.
- 1 Sam 23:21Saul said, “You are blessed by Yahweh; for you have had compassion on me.
- Hab 2:9Woe to him who gets an evil gain for his house, that he may set his nest on high, that he may be delivered from the hand of evil!
- Isa 10:7–11However he doesn’t mean so, neither does his heart think so; but it is in his heart to destroy, and to cut off not a few nations.
- Rom 1:32who, knowing the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but also approve of those who practice them.
- Deut 32:19Yahweh saw and abhorred, because of the provocation of his sons and his daughters.
- Hos 12:7–8A merchant has dishonest scales in his hand. He loves to defraud.
- Ps 49:18Though while he lived he blessed his soul — and men praise you when you do well for yourself —
- Luke 16:14–15The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, also heard all these things, and they scoffed at him.
- 2 Tim 3:2–4For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
- 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.
- Rom 1:29being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, malice; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil habits, secret slanderers,
- Matt 26:15–16and said, “What are you willing to give me, that I should deliver him to you?” They weighed out for him thirty pieces of silver.
- 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.”
- Col 3:5Put to death therefore your members which are on the earth: sexual immorality, uncleanness, depraved passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry;
- Ps 73:8–9They scoff and speak with malice. In arrogance, they threaten oppression.
- Jas 4:13Come now, you who say, “Today or tomorrow let’s go into this city, and spend a year there, trade, and make a profit.”
- 1 Cor 6:10nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor slanderers, nor extortionists, will inherit God’s Kingdom.
- Ps 52:1For the Chief Musician. A contemplation by David, when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul, “David has come to Ahimelech’s house.” Why do you boast of mischief, mighty man? God’s loving kindness endures continually.
- 1 Jn 2:15Don’t love the world or the things that are in the world. If anyone loves the world, the Father’s love isn’t in him.
- Jer 22:17But your eyes and your heart are not but for your covetousness, and for shedding innocent blood, for oppression, and for doing violence.”
- Jas 4:16But now you glory in your boasting. All such boasting is evil.
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