Psalm 49:10

Misplaced Trust In Wealth

⁹ That he should still live forever, and not see corruption. ¹⁰ For he sees that wise men die, likewise the fool and the senseless person perish, and leave their wealth to others. ¹¹ Their inward thought is, that their houses shall continue forever, and their dwelling places to all generations; they call their lands after their own names.

Wise Men

Psalm 39:6

Surely every man walks in a vain show: surely they are in turmoil in vain: he heaps up riches, and knows not who shall gather them.

Psalm 94:8

Understand, you senseless among the people: and you fools, when will you be wise?

Psalm 73:22

So foolish was I, and ignorant: I was as a beast before you.

Proverbs 30:2

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

Luke 12:20

But God said unto him, You fool, this night your soul shall be required of you: then whose shall those things be, which you have prepared?

Psalm 17:14

From men by your hand, O LORD, from men of the world, who have their portion in this life, and whose belly you fill with your hid treasure: they are full of children, and leave the rest of their substance to their babes.

Psalm 49:17

For when he dies he shall carry nothing away: his glory shall not descend after him.

Psalm 92:6-7

A senseless man knows not; neither does a fool understand this.

Proverbs 11:4

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

Proverbs 12:1

Whosoever loves instruction loves knowledge: but he that hates reproof is senseless.

Ecclesiastes 2:16-21

For there is no remembrance of the wise more than of the fool forever; seeing that which now is in the days to come shall all be forgotten. And how does the wise man die? as the fool.

Ecclesiastes 2:26

For God gives to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he gives the work of gathering and heaping up, only that he may give to him that is good before God. This also is vanity and grasping of the wind.

Ecclesiastes 5:13-16

There is a great evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept by their owners to their hurt.

Ecclesiastes 9:1-2

For all this I considered in my heart even to declare all 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 is before them.

Jeremiah 10:8

But they are altogether senseless and foolish: the wooden idol is a doctrine of vanities.

Jeremiah 17:11

As the partridge sits on eggs, and hatches them not; so he that gets riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool.

Romans 5:12-14

Therefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:

1 Timothy 6:6-10

But godliness with contentment is great gain.

Hebrews 9:27

And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment: