Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
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For he seeth that wise men die, likewise the fool and the brutish person perish, and leave their wealth to others.
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Psalm 49:17
because when he dies he will not take [away] any [of it]. His wealth will not follow down after him.
Psalm 17:14
from men by your hand, O Yahweh, from men of [this] world. Their share [is] in {this life}, and you fill their stomach [with] your treasure. They are satisfied [with] children. They bequeath their excess to their children.
Psalm 39:6
Surely a man walks about as a [mere] {shadow}; surely in vain they bustle about. He heaps up [possessions] but does not know who [will] gather them [in].
Proverbs 11:4
Wealth does not profit on the day of wrath, but righteousness will deliver from death.
Ecclesiastes 2:18
So I hated all my toil with which I have toiled under the sun, for I must leave it behind to someone who will be after me.
Ecclesiastes 5:13
There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun: wealth {hoarded} by its owner to his harm.
Jeremiah 17:11
[Like] a partridge that hatches eggs it did not lay [is] one who amasses wealth without justice. In the middle of his days it will leave him, and at his end he will [prove to] be a fool."
Luke 12:20
But God said to him, 'Fool! This night your life is demanded from you, and [the things] which you have prepared--whose will they be?'
1 Timothy 6:6
But godliness with contentment is a great means of gain.
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Psalm 94:11
Yahweh knows [the] thoughts of humankind, that {they [are] to no purpose}.