Proverbs 11:4 (BSB)

Riches are worthless in the day of wrath, but righteousness brings deliverance from death.

From Proverbs 11. Also in the ESV.

Commentary on Proverbs 11:4

  • Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Proverbs 11:4: 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, Psa 110:1-7 :11. It is a debt owing, not to nature, but to God's justice. After death the judgment, and that is a day of wrath, Rev 6:17. 2.
  • John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Proverbs 11:4: 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...
  • Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Proverbs 11:4: (Compare Pro 10:2). wrath--that is, of God.
  • Keil & Delitzsch (Lutheran), Biblical Commentary on the Old Testament on Proverbs 11:4: Pro 11:4 Three proverbs in praise of צדקה: 4 Possessions are of no profit in the day of wrath; But righteousness delivereth from death. That which is new here, is only that possessions and goods (vid., regarding הון, p. 63) are destitute of all value in the day of the μέλλουσα ὀργή; for יום עברה, the day of wrath breaking through the limits (of long-suffering)...