Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
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 God gives to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he gives the work of gathering and heaping up, only that he may give to him that is good before God. This also is vanity and grasping of the wind.
Job 5:5
Whose harvest the hungry eats up, and takes it even out of the thorns, and the robber swallows up their wealth.
Job 20:15
He has swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly.
Job 27:16
Though he heap up silver as the dust, and pile up clothing as the clay;
Psalm 39:6
Surely every man walks in a vain show: surely they are in turmoil in vain: he heaps up riches, and knows not who shall gather them.
Proverbs 23:5
Will you set your eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.
Haggai 1:9
You looked for much, and, lo, it came to little; and when you brought it home, I did blow it away. Why? says the LORD of hosts. Because of my house that is in ruins, and you run every man unto his own house.
Haggai 2:16
Since those days were, when one came to a heap of twenty measures, there were but ten: when one came to the winepress to draw out fifty vessels out of the press, there were but twenty.
Matthew 6:19
Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust does corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:
And he
1 Samuel 2:6
The LORD kills, and makes alive: he brings down to the grave, and brings up.
1 Kings 14:26
And he took away the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king's house; he even took away all: and he took away all the shields of gold which Solomon had made.
Psalm 109:9
Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.
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Matthew 6:19
Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust does corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: