Jeremiah 17:11

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not; so he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool.

Sitteth, etc

Shall leave

Psalm 55:23

Proverbs 23:5

Ecclesiastes 5:13

A fool

Luke 12:20

Bible References

Sitteth, etc

As the fowl-house is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: for this reason they have become great and have got wealth.

A curse is on him who is building his house by wrongdoing, and his rooms by doing what is not right; who makes use of his neighbour without payment, and gives him nothing for his work;

And they are secretly waiting for their blood and making ready destruction for themselves.

Wealth quickly got will become less; but he who gets a store by the work of his hands will have it increased.

He whose desires are fixed on profit is a cause of trouble to his family; but he who has no desire for offerings will have life.

He who gets stores of wealth by a false tongue, is going after what is only breath, and searching for death.

He who makes his wealth greater by taking interest, only gets it together for him who has pity on the poor.

Your chiefs have gone against the Lord, they have become friends of thieves; every one of them is looking for profit and going after rewards; they do not give right decisions for the child who has no father, and they do not let the cause of the widow come before them.

In you they have taken rewards as the price of blood; you have taken interest and great profits, and you have taken away your neighbours' goods by force, and have not kept me in mind, says the Lord.

As for Canaan, the scales of deceit are in his hands; he takes pleasure in twisted ways.

For they have no knowledge of how to do what is right, says the Lord, who are storing up violent acts and destruction in their great houses.

Give ear to this, you who are crushing the poor, and whose purpose is to put an end to those who are in need in the land,

A curse on the designers of evil, working on their beds! in the morning light they do it, because it is in their power.

Am I to let the stores of the evil-doer go out of my memory, and the short measure, which is cursed?

Their hands are made ready to do evil; the ruler makes requests for money, and the judge is looking for a reward; and the great man gives decisions at his pleasure, and the right is twisted.

Will not all these take up a word of shame against him and a bitter saying against him, and say, A curse on him who goes on taking what is not his and is weighted down with the property of debtors!

And in that day I will send punishment on all those who come jumping over the doorstep and make their master's house full of violent behaviour and deceit.

And I will send it out, says the Lord of armies, and it will go into the house of the thief and into the house of him who takes a false oath by my name: and it will be in his house, causing its complete destruction, with its woodwork and its stones.

This is what the Lord of armies has said: Let your judging be upright and done in good faith, let every man have mercy and pity for his brother:

And I will come near to you for judging; I will quickly be a witness against the wonder-workers, against those who have been untrue in married life, against those who take false oaths; against those who keep back from the servant his payment, and who are hard on the widow and the child without a father, who do not give his rights to the man from a strange country, and have no fear of me, says the Lord of armies.

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But those who have a desire for wealth are falling into danger, and are taken as in a net by a number of foolish and damaging desires, through which men are overtaken by death and destruction.

By whom some families have been completely overturned; who take money for teaching things which are not right; these will have to be stopped.

Your gold and your silver are wasted and their waste will be a witness against you, burning into your flesh. You have put by your store in the last days.

And in their desire for profit they will come to you with words of deceit, like traders doing business in souls: whose punishment has been ready for a long time and their destruction is watching for them.

Shall leave

But you, O God, will send them down into the underworld; the cruel and the false will be cut off before half their days are ended; but I will have faith in you.

Are your eyes lifted up to it? it is gone: for wealth takes to itself wings, like an eagle in flight up to heaven.

There is a great evil which I have seen under the sun--wealth kept by the owner to be his downfall.

A fool

But God said to him, You foolish one, tonight I will take your soul from you, and who then will be the owner of all the things which you have got together?