Baruch 6:58
New Revised Standard Version
Anyone who can will strip them of their gold and silver and of the robes they wear, and go off with this booty, and they will not be able to help themselves.

New American Bible
How much better to be a king displaying his valor, or a handy tool in a house, the joy of its owner, than these false gods; better the door of a house, protecting whatever is within, than these false gods; better a wooden post in a palace, than these false gods!

Douay-Rheims Bible
Therefore it is better to be a king that sheweth his power: or else a profitable vessel in the house, with which the owner thereof will be well satisfied: or a door in the house, to keep things safe that are therein, than such false gods.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Therefore it is better to be a king that sheweth his power: or else a profitable vessel in the house, with which the owner thereof will be well satisfied: or a door in the house, to keep things safe that are therein, than such false gods.

Baruch 6:56
Neither are these gods of wood, and of stone, and laid over with gold, and with silver, able to deliver themselves from thieves or robbers: they that are stronger than them,

Baruch 6:57
Shall take from them the gold, and silver, and the raiment wherewith they are clothed, and shall go their way, neither shall they help themselves.

Baruch 6:59
The sun, and the moon, and the stars being bright, and sent forth for profitable uses, are obedient.

Baruch 6:60
In like manner the lightning, when it breaketh forth, is easy to be seen: and after the same manner the wind bloweth in every country.

Context
Baruch 6
57Shall take from them the gold, and silver, and the raiment wherewith they are clothed, and shall go their way, neither shall they help themselves. 58Therefore it is better to be a king that sheweth his power: or else a profitable vessel in the house, with which the owner thereof will be well satisfied: or a door in the house, to keep things safe that are therein, than such false gods. 59The sun, and the moon, and the stars being bright, and sent forth for profitable uses, are obedient.…
Cross References
Baruch 6:56
Neither are these gods of wood, and of stone, and laid over with gold, and with silver, able to deliver themselves from thieves or robbers: they that are stronger than them,

Baruch 6:57
Shall take from them the gold, and silver, and the raiment wherewith they are clothed, and shall go their way, neither shall they help themselves.

Baruch 6:59
The sun, and the moon, and the stars being bright, and sent forth for profitable uses, are obedient.

Baruch 6:60
In like manner the lightning, when it breaketh forth, is easy to be seen: and after the same manner the wind bloweth in every country.



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Baruch 6:57
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