Psalm 49:10

Misplaced Trust In Wealth

⁹ So that he might have eternal life, and never see the underworld. ¹⁰ For he sees that wise men come to their end, and foolish persons of low behaviour come to destruction together, letting their wealth go to others. ¹¹ The place of the dead is their house for ever, and their resting-place through all generations; those who come after them give their names to their lands.

Wise Men

Psalm 39:6

Truly, every man goes on his way like an image; he is troubled for no purpose: he makes a great store of wealth, and has no knowledge of who will get it.

Psalm 94:8

Give your mind to my words, you who are without wisdom among the people; you foolish men, when will you be wise?

Psalm 73:22

As for me, I was foolish, and without knowledge; I was like a beast before you.

Proverbs 30:2

For I am more like a beast than any man, I have no power of reasoning like a man:

Luke 12:20

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?

Psalm 49:17

For at his death, he will take nothing away; his glory will not go down after him.

Proverbs 11:4

Wealth is of no profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness keeps a man safe from death.

Proverbs 12:1

A lover of training is a lover of knowledge; but a hater of teaching is like a beast.

Ecclesiastes 2:16-21

Of the wise man, as of the foolish man, there is no memory for ever, seeing that those who now are will have gone from memory in the days to come. See how death comes to the wise as to the foolish!

Ecclesiastes 2:26

To the man with whom he is pleased, God gives wisdom and knowledge and joy; but to the sinner he gives the work of getting goods together and storing up wealth, to give to him in whom God has pleasure. This again is to no purpose and desire for wind.

Ecclesiastes 5:13-16

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

Ecclesiastes 9:1-2

All this I took to heart, and my heart saw it all: that the upright and the wise and their works are in the hand of God; and men may not be certain if it will be love or hate; all is to no purpose before them.

Jeremiah 10:8

But they are together like beasts and foolish: the teaching of false gods is wood.

Jeremiah 17:11

Like the partridge, getting eggs together but not producing young, is a man who gets wealth but not by right; before half his days are ended, it will go from him, and at his end he will be foolish.

Romans 5:12-14

For this reason, as through one man sin came into the world, and death because of sin, and so death came to all men, because all have done evil:

1 Timothy 6:6-10

But true faith, with peace of mind, is of great profit:

Hebrews 9:27

And because by God's law death comes to men once, and after that they are judged;