As for me, I said in my prosperity, “I shall never be moved.”
Parallel translations
- KJV And in my prosperity I said, I shall never be moved.
- BSB In prosperity I said, “I will never be shaken.”
- NKJV Now in my prosperity I said, “I shall never be moved.”
- NASB ¶Now as for me, I said in my prosperity, “I will never be moved.”
- NLT When I was prosperous, I said, “Nothing can stop me now!”
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Cross-references & the web
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- 2 Cor 12:7By reason of the exceeding greatness of the revelations, that I should not be exalted excessively, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to torment me, that I should not be exalted excessively.
- Ps 119:117Hold me up, and I will be safe, and will have respect for your statutes continually.
- Luke 12:19I will tell my soul, “Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years. Take your ease, eat, drink, be merry.”’
- Ps 16:8I have set Yahweh always before me. Because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.
- Dan 4:30The king spoke and said, Is not this great Babylon, which I have built for the royal dwelling place, by the might of my power and for the glory of my majesty?
- Isa 47:7You said, ‘I will be a princess forever;’ so that you did not lay these things to your heart, nor did you remember the results.
- Ps 10:6He says in his heart, “I shall not be shaken. For generations I shall have no trouble.”
- Ps 15:5he who doesn’t lend out his money for usury, nor take a bribe against the innocent. He who does these things shall never be shaken.
- Isa 56:12“Come,” say they, “I will get wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and tomorrow will be as today, great beyond measure.”
- Job 29:18–20Then I said, ‘I shall die in my own house, I shall count my days as the sand.
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