Ecclesiastes 5:11
When good things increase, those who consume them increase. So what advantage is there to their owners except to see them with their eyes?
Genesis 12:16
Therefore Pharaoh treated Abram well for her sake; he acquired sheep, oxen, male and female donkeys, male and female servants, and camels.
Genesis 13:2
Now Abram was extremely rich in livestock and in silver and in gold.
Genesis 13:5-7
But Lot, who went with Abram, also had flocks and herds and tents.
Joshua 7:21-25
when I saw among the spoils [in Jericho] a
1 Kings 4:22-23
Solomon’s food [for the royal household] for one day was thirty
1 Kings 5:13-16
King Solomon levied forced laborers from all Israel; and the forced laborers numbered 30,000 men.
Nehemiah 5:17-18
Moreover, there were at my table a hundred and fifty Jews and officials, besides those who came to us from the nations that were around us.
Psalm 119:36-37
Incline my heart to Your testimonies
And not to dishonest gain and envy.
Proverbs 23:5
When you set your eyes on wealth, it is [suddenly] gone.
For wealth certainly makes itself wings
Like an eagle that flies to the heavens.
Ecclesiastes 6:9
What the eyes see [enjoying what is available] is better than [craving] what the soul desires. This too is futility and chasing after the wind.
Ecclesiastes 11:9
Rejoice, young man, in your childhood, and let your heart be pleasant in the days of your young manhood. And walk in the ways of your heart and in the desires of your eyes, but know that God will bring you into judgment for all these things.
Jeremiah 17:11
“Like the partridge that hatches eggs which she has not laid,
So is he who makes a fortune in ways that are unjust.
It will be lost to him before his days are over,
And in the end he will be [nothing but] a fool.”
Habakkuk 2:13
“Is it not indeed from the Lord of hosts
That peoples labor [only] for the fire [that will destroy their work],
And nations grow weary for nothing [that is, things which have no lasting value]?
1 John 2:16
For all that is in the world—the lust and sensual craving of the flesh and the lust and longing of the eyes and the boastful pride of life [pretentious confidence in one’s resources or in the stability of earthly things]—these do not come from the Father, but are from the world.
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Incline my heart to Your testimonies
And not to dishonest gain and envy.
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When you set your eyes on wealth, it is [suddenly] gone.
For wealth certainly makes itself wings
Like an eagle that flies to the heavens.
“Like the partridge that hatches eggs which she has not laid,
So is he who makes a fortune in ways that are unjust.
It will be lost to him before his days are over,
And in the end he will be [nothing but] a fool.”
“Is it not indeed from the Lord of hosts
That peoples labor [only] for the fire [that will destroy their work],
And nations grow weary for nothing [that is, things which have no lasting value]?