A moment in scripture
Proverbs 27:24
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For riches are not for ever: and doth the crown endure to every generation?
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The surrounding passage
- Proverbs 27:22
Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.
- Proverbs 27:23
Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, and look well to thy herds.
- Proverbs 27:25
The hay appeareth, and the tender grass sheweth itself, and herbs of the mountains are gathered.
- Proverbs 27:26
The lambs are for thy clothing, and the goats are the price of the field.
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.