Psalm 49:10

Misplaced Trust In Wealth

⁹ that he should still live for ever and not see corruption. ¹⁰ For he sees that even wise men die;
The stupid and the senseless alike perish
And leave their wealth to others.
¹¹ Their inward thought is that their houses are eternal and their dwelling places to all generations; they call their lands after their own names.

Wise Men

Psalm 39:6

Surely man walks in darkness; surely they are disquieted in vain; they heap up riches not knowing who shall gather them.

Psalm 94:8

Understand, ye carnal ones among the people, and, ye fools, when will ye be wise?

Psalm 73:22

But I was ignorant and did not understand; I was as a beast before thee.

Proverbs 30:2

Surely I am more carnal than any man and have not the understanding of a man.

Luke 12:20

But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee; then whose shall those things be which thou hast stored up?

Psalm 17:14

from men, with thy hand, O LORD, from men of the world, who have their portion in this life and whose belly thou dost fill with thy provision: they satisfy their sons and leave the rest to their family.

Psalm 49:17

for in his death he shall carry nothing away; nor shall his glory descend after him.

Psalm 92:6-7

A carnal man does not know, neither does a fool understand this:

Proverbs 11:4

Riches shall not profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness shall deliver from death.

Proverbs 12:1

Whosoever loves chastening loves knowledge, but he that hates reproof is carnal.

Ecclesiastes 2:16-21

For there is no remembrance of the wise more than of the fool for ever, seeing that which now is in the days to come shall all be forgotten. And also the wise man shall die the same as the fool.

Ecclesiastes 2:26

For God gives to the man that is good in his sight wisdom and knowledge and joy, but to the sinner he gives travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to the one that is good before God. This also is vanity and vexation of spirit.

Ecclesiastes 5:13-16

There is another sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt;

Ecclesiastes 9:1-2

Certainly I applied my heart unto all of this that I might declare all of this: that the righteous and the wise and their works are in the hand of God; no man knows either love or hatred by all that passes before them.

Jeremiah 10:8

But they shall become altogether carnal and foolish. The stock is a doctrine of vanities.

Jeremiah 17:11

As the partridge that steals that which she did not hatch, is he that gets riches and not with righteousness; in the midst of his days he shall leave them, and at his end shall be a fool.

Romans 5:12-14

Therefore, in the manner which sin entered into the world by one man, and because of sin, death; and so death passed upon all men in the one in whom all sinned.

1 Timothy 6:6-10

But piety with contentment is great gain.

Hebrews 9:27

And as it is appointed unto men to die once, and after this the judgment;