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Don`t trust in oppression. Don`t become vain in robbery. If riches increase, Don`t set your heart on them.
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Wealth Is Not a Valid Trust
Commentators explain that this verse forbids trusting in wealth, whether gained dishonestly through oppression and robbery or acquired through honest means. Scholars like Albert Barnes and John Calvin note that the psalmist is systematically removing all false objects of trust—first people, now possessions—to point the reader solely to God as the only reliable refuge.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Trust not in oppression — The general meaning here is that we are not to trust in anything but God. In the previous verse the psalmist had…
19th Century
Anglican
If riches increase. —Even if by honest means you grow rich, distrust your wealth.
Baptist
Trust not in oppression.
An ungodly man says, "Well, if I cannot trust in others, I will trust in myself; my own stout arm shall wi…
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16th Century
Protestant
Trust not in oppression and robbery. We are taught here that there can be no real trusting in God until we put away all those vain confide…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Trust not in oppression Either in the power of oppressing others; see (Isaiah 30:12); or in riches gotte…
Those who have found the comfort of the ways of God themselves will invite others into those ways; we will never have less because others share wit…
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