When I was prosperous, I said, “Nothing can stop me now!”
Parallel translations
- WEB As for me, I said in my prosperity, “I shall never be moved.”
- 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.”
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Quick answer
In prosperity David presumed he would never be shaken. It exposes the false security of self-confidence in good times.
Overview
David confesses that ease bred complacency, leading him to trust his own stability rather than God. Prosperity can dull our dependence on the Lord. The verse warns believers against the pride that forgets every blessing comes from God's hand.
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Cross-references · 10
- 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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