Psalm 49:10

Misplaced Trust In Wealth

⁹ that he should go on living and not see corruption. ¹⁰ Indeed, he will see wise people die; the stupid and the senseless will meet their doom and leave their wealth to others. ¹¹ Their inner thoughts are on their homes forever; their dwellings from generation to generation. They even name their lands after themselves.

Wise Men

Psalm 39:6

In fact, people walk around as shadows. Surely, they busy themselves for nothing, heaping up possessions but not knowing who will get them.

Psalm 94:8

Pay attention, you dull ones among the crowds! You fools! Will you ever become wise?

Psalm 73:22

Then, I was too stupid and didn't realize I was acting like a wild animal with you.

Proverbs 30:2

Surely I am beyond the senselessness of any man; I do not perceive things the way human beings do.

Luke 12:20

But God told him, "You fool! This very night your life will be demanded back from you. Now who will get the things you've accumulated?'

Psalm 17:14

from men, LORD, by your hand from men who belong to this world, whose reward is only in this life. But as for your treasured ones, may their stomachs be full, may their children have an abundance, and may they leave wealth to their offspring.

Psalm 49:17

When he dies, he will not be able to take it all with him his possessions will not follow him to the grave,

Psalm 92:6-7

A stupid man doesn't know, and a fool can't comprehend this:

Proverbs 11:4

Wealth won't help in the time of judgment, but righteousness will deliver from death.

Proverbs 12:1

The person who loves correction loves knowledge, but anyone who hates a rebuke is stupid.

Ecclesiastes 2:16-21

For neither the wise nor the fool will be long remembered, since in days to come everything will be forgotten. The wise man dies the same way as the fool, does he not?

Ecclesiastes 2:26

After all, to the person who is good in God's sight, he gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy, but to the sinner he gives the troublesome task of acquiring and accumulating in order to leave it to someone who is good in the sight of God. This also is pointless and chasing after the wind.

Ecclesiastes 5:13-16

I have observed a painful tragedy on earth: Wealth hoarded by its owner harms him,

Ecclesiastes 9:1-2

In light of all of this, I committed myself to explain it this way: the righteous and the wise, along with everything they do, are in the hands of God. Furthermore, as to love and hate, no human being knows everything concerning them.

Jeremiah 10:8

Everyone is stupid and senseless. They follow worthless instruction from a piece of wood!

Jeremiah 17:11

As a partridge gathers together eggs that it didn't lay, so is a person who amasses wealth unjustly. In the middle of his life it will leave him, and in the end he will prove to be a fool."

Romans 5:12-14

Just as sin entered the world through one man, and death resulted from sin, therefore everyone dies, because everyone has sinned.

1 Timothy 6:6-10

Of course, godliness with contentment does bring a great profit.

Hebrews 9:27

Indeed, just as people are destined to die once and after that to be judged,