Parallel Verses
Amplified
For riches are not forever,
Nor does a crown endure to all generations.
New American Standard Bible
Nor does a
King James Version
For riches are not for ever: and doth the crown endure to every generation?
Holman Bible
not even a crown lasts for all time.
International Standard Version
because riches don't endure forever, and crowns don't last from one generation to the next.
A Conservative Version
For riches are not forever. And does the crown endure to all generations?
American Standard Version
For riches are not for ever: And doth the crown endure unto all generations?
Bible in Basic English
For wealth is not for ever, and money does not go on for all generations.
Darby Translation
for wealth is not for ever; and doth the crown endure from generation to generation?
Julia Smith Translation
For not strength forever, and not consecration to generation and generation.
King James 2000
For riches are not forever: and does the crown endure to every generation?
Lexham Expanded Bible
For riches [are] not forever, nor a crown for generation [after] generation.
Modern King James verseion
For riches are not forever; nor the crown from generation to generation.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
For riches abide not away, and the crown endureth not forever.
NET Bible
for riches do not last forever, nor does a crown last from generation to generation.
New Heart English Bible
for riches are not forever, nor does even the crown endure to all generations.
The Emphasized Bible
For, not age-abiding, are riches, nor is the diadem, from generation to generation: -
Webster
For riches are not for ever: and doth the crown endure to every generation?
World English Bible
for riches are not forever, nor does even the crown endure to all generations.
Youngs Literal Translation
For riches are not to the age, Nor a crown to generation and generation.
Themes
Agriculture or husbandry » Requires » Diligence
Endurance » What does not endure
Riches » Described as » Temporary
Interlinear
References
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Proverbs 27:24
Verse Info
Context Readings
All About Life
23
Be diligent to know the condition of your flocks,
And pay attention to your herds;
For riches are not forever,
Nor does a crown endure to all generations.
When the grass is gone, the new growth is seen,
And herbs of the mountain are gathered in,
Cross References
Proverbs 23:5
When you set your eyes on wealth, it is [suddenly] gone.
For wealth certainly makes itself wings
Like an eagle that flies to the heavens.
2 Samuel 7:16
Your house (royal dynasty) and your kingdom will endure forever before Me; your throne will be established forever.”’”
Psalm 89:36
“His
And his throne [will continue] as the sun before Me.
Isaiah 9:7
There shall be no end to the increase of His government and of peace,
[He shall rule] on the throne of David and over his kingdom,
To establish it and to uphold it with justice and righteousness
From that time forward and forevermore.
The zeal of the Lord of hosts will accomplish this.
Zephaniah 1:18
Neither their silver nor their gold
Will be able to rescue them
On the day of the Lord’s indignation and wrath.
And the whole earth will be consumed
In the fire of His jealous
For He shall make a full and complete end,
Indeed a terrifying one,
Of all the inhabitants of the earth.
1 Timothy 6:17-18
As for the rich in this present world, instruct them not to be conceited and arrogant, nor to set their hope on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, who richly and ceaselessly provides us with everything for our enjoyment.
James 1:10
and the rich man is to glory in being humbled [by trials revealing human frailty, knowing true riches are found in the grace of God], for like the flower of the grass he will pass away.