Thematic Bible: Fleeting and uncertain
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To the man who is good, God gives wisdom and knowledge and joy. But to the sinner he gives the work of getting goods together and storing up wealth, to give to him who is good before God. This also is vanity and grasping for the wind.
Will you look for things that do not exist? Riches grow wings and fly away like a bird.
A person who gets rich dishonestly is like a partridge that hatches eggs it did not lay. During his lifetime, he will lose his wealth. In the end, he will be a wicked fool.
We brought nothing into the world and we can carry nothing out.
A flood will carry off his house. Rushing waters will wash away his possessions on the day of God's wrath.
One can see that wise people die, that foolish and stupid people meet the same end. They leave their wealth to others.
I hated all the work I had done under the sun, because I would leave it behind for the man who comes after me.
Riches are not forever: and a crown does not endure for every generation.
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