Riches do not profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death.
KJV
Riches profit not in the day of wrath: but righteousness delivereth from death.
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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
Rev 6:15
;
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
Pro 10:2
; the Targum is,
"from an evil death.''
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