Ecclesiastes 5:14

Then that wealth was lost through bad luck; although he fathered a son, he has nothing left to give him.

1 Samuel 2:6-8

The Lord both kills and gives life; he brings down to the grave and raises up.

1 Samuel 2:36

Everyone who remains in your house will come to bow before him for a little money and for a scrap of bread. Each will say, 'Assign me to a priestly task so I can eat a scrap of bread.'"

1 Kings 14:26

He took away the treasures of the Lord's temple and of the royal palace; he took everything, including all the golden shields that Solomon had made.

Job 5:5

The hungry eat up his harvest, and take it even from behind the thorns, and the thirsty swallow up their fortune.

Job 20:15-29

The wealth that he consumed he vomits up, God will make him throw it out of his stomach.

Job 27:16-17

If he piles up silver like dust and stores up clothing like mounds of clay,

Psalm 39:6

Surely people go through life as mere ghosts. Surely they accumulate worthless wealth without knowing who will eventually haul it away."

Psalm 109:9-12

May his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow!

Proverbs 23:5

When you gaze upon riches, they are gone, for they surely make wings for themselves, and fly off into the sky like an eagle!

Ecclesiastes 2:26

For to the one who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy, but to the sinner, he gives the task of amassing wealth -- only to give it to the one who pleases God. This task of the wicked is futile -- like chasing the wind!

Haggai 1:9

You expected a large harvest, but instead there was little, and when you brought it home it disappeared right away. Why?' asks the Lord who rules over all. 'Because my temple remains in ruins, thanks to each of you favoring his own house!

Haggai 2:16-17

From that time when one came expecting a heap of twenty measures, there were only ten; when one came to the wine vat to draw out fifty measures from it, there were only twenty.

Matthew 6:19-20

"Do not accumulate for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal.

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Summary

But those riches perish by evil travail: and he begetteth a son, and there is nothing in his hand.

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Ecclesiastes 2:26
For to the one who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy, but to the sinner, he gives the task of amassing wealth -- only to give it to the one who pleases God. This task of the wicked is futile -- like chasing the wind!
Job 5:5
The hungry eat up his harvest, and take it even from behind the thorns, and the thirsty swallow up their fortune.
Job 20:15
The wealth that he consumed he vomits up, God will make him throw it out of his stomach.
Job 27:16
If he piles up silver like dust and stores up clothing like mounds of clay,
Psalm 39:6
Surely people go through life as mere ghosts. Surely they accumulate worthless wealth without knowing who will eventually haul it away."
Proverbs 23:5
When you gaze upon riches, they are gone, for they surely make wings for themselves, and fly off into the sky like an eagle!
Haggai 1:9
You expected a large harvest, but instead there was little, and when you brought it home it disappeared right away. Why?' asks the Lord who rules over all. 'Because my temple remains in ruins, thanks to each of you favoring his own house!
Haggai 2:16
From that time when one came expecting a heap of twenty measures, there were only ten; when one came to the wine vat to draw out fifty measures from it, there were only twenty.
Matthew 6:19
"Do not accumulate for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal.

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1 Samuel 2:6
The Lord both kills and gives life; he brings down to the grave and raises up.
1 Kings 14:26
He took away the treasures of the Lord's temple and of the royal palace; he took everything, including all the golden shields that Solomon had made.
Psalm 109:9
May his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow!

General references

Matthew 6:19
"Do not accumulate for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal.

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