Proverbs 27:24
Translations
King James Version (KJV)
For riches are not for ever: and does the crown endure to every generation?
American King James Version (AKJV)
For riches are not for ever: and does the crown endure to every generation?
American Standard Version (ASV)
For riches are not for ever: And doth the crown endure unto all generations?
Basic English Translation (BBE)
For wealth is not for ever, and money does not go on for all generations.
Webster's Revision
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.
English Revised Version (ERV)
For riches are not for ever; and doth the crown endure unto all generations?
Definitions for Proverbs 27:24
Clarke's Proverbs 27:24 Bible Commentary
For riches are not for ever - All other kinds of property are very transitory. Money and the highest civil honors are but for a short season. Flocks and herds, properly attended to, may be multiplied and continued from generation to generation. The crown itself is not naturally so permanent.
Barnes's Proverbs 27:24 Bible Commentary
Riches - The money which men may steal, or waste, is contrasted with the land of which the owner is not so easily deprived. Nor will the crown (both the "crown of pure gold" worn on the mitre of the high priest, Exodus 29:6; Exodus 39:30; and the kingly diadem, the symbol of power generally) be transmitted (as flocks and herds had been) "from one generation to another."
Wesley's Proverbs 27:24 Bible Commentary
27:24 For - What thou dost now possess, will not last always. If a man had the wealth of a kingdom, without care and diligence it would be brought to nothing.