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Proverbs 11:4

Proverbs 11:4
Riches profit not in the day of wrath: but righteousness delivereth from death.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

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…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

The day of wrath - Words true in their highest sense of the great “diesirae” of the future, but spoken in the first instance (compare Zep 1:15-18) of any “day of the Lord,” any time of judgment, when…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Note, 1. The day of death will be a day of wrath. It is a messenger of God's wrath; therefore when Moses had meditated on man's mortality he takes occasion thence to admire the power of God's anger,…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

in the day of wrath "While the words are true in their highest sense of the great -Dies iræ" of the future, they speak in the first instance, as do the like words in Zep 1:15-18, of any-day of the…