Proverbs 11:4

4 Riches don't help in the day of wrath, but righteousness rescues from death.

Proverbs 11:4 Meaning and Commentary

Proverbs 11:4

Riches profit not in the day of wrath
When God takes away the soul, and summons to judgment, and brings to it; and as riches profited not Rome Pagan, in the day of the Lamb's wrath upon it; so neither will they profit Rome Papal, when it will come in remembrance before God, to give it the cup of the wine of the fierceness of his wrath; see ( Revelation 6:15-17 ) ( 18:15-17 ) ; but righteousness delivereth from death;
from the curse of a corporeal death; from the power of a spiritual one; and from dying the second or an eternal one; (See Gill on Proverbs 10:2); the Targum is,

``from an evil death.''

Proverbs 11:4 In-Context

2 When pride comes, so does shame, but wisdom brings humility.
3 Integrity guides the virtuous, but dishonesty ruins the treacherous.
4 Riches don't help in the day of wrath, but righteousness rescues from death.
5 The righteousness of the innocent makes their path straight, but the wicked fall in their wickedness.
6 Those who do right are saved by their righteousness, but the untrustworthy are caught by their own desires.
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