Psalm 49:10

Misplaced Trust In Wealth

⁹ That he should still live perpetually, and not see corruption. ¹⁰ For he seeth that wise men die; all alike, the fool and the brutish perish, and they leave their wealth to others. ¹¹ Their inward thought is, that their houses are for ever,their dwelling-places from generation to generation: they call the lands after their own names.

Wise Men

Psalm 39:6

Verily, man walketh in a vain show; verily they are disquieted in vain; he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.

Psalm 94:8

Understand, ye brutish among the people; and ye fools, when will ye be wise?

Psalm 73:22

Then I was brutish and knew nothing; I was as a beast with thee.

Proverbs 30:2

Truly I am more stupid than any one; and I have not a man's intelligence.

Luke 12:20

But God said to him, Fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee; and whose shall be what thou hast prepared?

Psalm 17:14

From men who are thy hand, O Jehovah, from men of this age: their portion is in this life, and their belly thou fillest with thy hid treasure; they have their fill of sons, and leave the rest of their substance to their children.

Psalm 49:17

For when he dieth, he shall carry nothing away; his glory shall not descend after him.

Psalm 92:6-7

A brutish man knoweth not, neither doth a fool understand it.

Proverbs 11:4

Wealth profiteth not in the day of wrath; but righteousness delivereth from death.

Proverbs 12:1

Whoso loveth discipline loveth knowledge, but he that hateth reproof is brutish.

Ecclesiastes 2:16-21

For there shall be no remembrance of the wise more than of the fool for ever; because everything is already forgotten in the days which come. And how dieth the wise even as the fool?

Ecclesiastes 2:26

For he giveth to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy; but to the sinner he giveth travail to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him that is good in God's sight. This also is vanity and pursuit of the wind.

Ecclesiastes 5:13-16

There is a grievous evil that I have seen under the sun: riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt;

Ecclesiastes 9:1-2

For all this I laid to my heart and indeed to investigate all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God; man knoweth neither love nor hatred: all is before them.

Jeremiah 10:8

But they are one and all senseless and foolish; the teaching of vanities is a stock.

Jeremiah 17:11

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

Romans 5:12-14

For this cause, even as by one man sin entered into the world, and by sin death; and thus death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:

1 Timothy 6:6-10

But piety with contentment is great gain.

Hebrews 9:27

And forasmuch as it is the portion of men once to die, and after this judgment;