Psalm 49:10

Misplaced Trust In Wealth

⁹ that he should live on forever and never see the pit. ¹⁰ For he sees that even wise men die;
The stupid and the senseless alike perish
And leave their wealth to others.
¹¹ Their graves are their homes forever, their dwelling places to all generations, though they called lands by their own names.

Wise Men

Psalm 39:6

Surely a man goes about as a shadow! Surely for nothing they are in turmoil; man heaps up wealth and does not know who will gather!

Psalm 94:8

Understand, O dullest of the people! Fools, when will you be wise?

Psalm 73:22

I was brutish and ignorant; I was like a beast toward you.

Proverbs 30:2

Surely I am too stupid to be a man. I have not the understanding of a man.

Luke 12:20

But God said to him, 'Fool! This night your soul is required of you, and the things you have prepared, whose will they be?'

Psalm 17:14

from men by your hand, O LORD, from men of the world whose portion is in this life. You fill their womb with treasure; they are satisfied with children, and they leave their abundance to their infants.

Psalm 49:17

For when he dies he will carry nothing away; his glory will not go down after him.

Psalm 92:6-7

The stupid man cannot know; the fool cannot understand this:

Proverbs 11:4

Riches do not profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death.

Proverbs 12:1

Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid.

Ecclesiastes 2:16-21

For of the wise as of the fool there is no enduring remembrance, seeing that in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. How the wise dies just like the fool!

Ecclesiastes 2:26

For to the one who pleases him God has given wisdom and knowledge and joy, but to the sinner he has given the business of gathering and collecting, only to give to one who pleases God. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.

Ecclesiastes 5:13-16

There is a grievous evil that I have seen under the sun: riches were kept by their owner to his hurt,

Ecclesiastes 9:1-2

But all this I laid to heart, examining it all, how the righteous and the wise and their deeds are in the hand of God. Whether it is love or hate, man does not know; both are before him.

Jeremiah 10:8

They are both stupid and foolish; the instruction of idols is but wood!

Jeremiah 17:11

Like the partridge that gathers a brood that she did not hatch, so is he who gets riches but not by justice; in the midst of his days they will leave him, and at his end he will be a fool.

Romans 5:12-14

Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, and so death spread to all men because all sinned--

1 Timothy 6:6-10

Now there is great gain in godliness with contentment,

Hebrews 9:27

And just as it is appointed for man to die once, and after that comes judgment,