John Trapp Complete Commentary - Proverbs 10:2
Pro 10:2 Treasures of wickedness profit nothing: but righteousness delivereth from death. Ver. 2. Treasures of wickedness. ] Our Saviour calls it "Mammon of iniquity," Luk 16:9 that next odious name to the devil. Most men’s care is how to grasp and get wealth for their children - rem rem, quocunque modo rem. Virtus post nummos, &c. But what saith a grave author? a "Better leave thy child a wallet to beg from door to door, than a cursed hoard of evil gotten goods." There is for the most... read more
The Biblical Illustrator - Proverbs 10:2
Proverbs 10:2Treasures of wickedness profit nothing, but righteousness delivereth from death The profits of wickedness and of righteousnessIn nothing is our common proneness to self-deception more conspicuously manifested than in the erroneous estimate which we form respecting this world and the next.Of the one we think as though it could never have an end; of the other as though it could never have a beginning.I. The treasures of wickedness profit nothing. “Treasures of wickedness” should mean... read more