Psalm 49:10

Misplaced Trust In Wealth

⁹ so that he may stay alive forever [and] not see the pit. ¹⁰ For he sees [that] the wise die, together [with the] fool and brute they perish, and leave their wealth to the next [generation]. ¹¹ Within them [they think] their houses [are] forever, their dwelling places from generation to generation. They {name} [their] lands by their [own] names.

Wise Men

Psalm 39:6

Surely a man walks about as a [mere] {shadow}; surely in vain they bustle about. He heaps up [possessions] but does not know who [will] gather them [in].

Psalm 94:8

You pay attention, O brutes among the people. And [you] fools, when you will show insight?

Psalm 73:22

then I was brutish and ignorant. With you I was [like] the beasts.

Proverbs 30:2

Certainly I [am more] stupid than a man, and the understanding of humankind [is] not for me.

Luke 12:20

But God said to him, 'Fool! This night your life is demanded from you, and [the things] which you have prepared--whose will they be?'

Psalm 17:14

from men by your hand, O Yahweh, from men of [this] world. Their share [is] in {this life}, and you fill their stomach [with] your treasure. They are satisfied [with] children. They bequeath their excess to their children.

Psalm 49:17

because when he dies he will not take [away] any [of it]. His wealth will not follow down after him.

Psalm 92:6-7

[The] brutish man does not know, and [the] fool cannot understand this.

Proverbs 11:4

Wealth does not profit on the day of wrath, but righteousness will deliver from death.

Proverbs 12:1

He who loves discipline loves knowledge, but he who hates rebuke [is] stupid.

Ecclesiastes 2:16-21

Certainly no one will remember the wise man or the fool in {future generations}. When [future] days come, both will have been forgotten already. How [is it that] the wise man dies the same as the fool?

Ecclesiastes 2:26

For to the person who [is] good in his eyes, he gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy; but to the sinner he gives the task of gathering and heaping up only to give [it] to [him who is] pleasing to him. This also [is] vanity and chasing wind!

Ecclesiastes 5:13-16

There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun: wealth {hoarded} by its owner to his harm.

Ecclesiastes 9:1-2

So all this I laid to my heart, and I concluded that the righteous and the wise, as well as their deeds, [are] in the hand of God. So no one knows anything that will [come] to them, whether [it will be] love or hatred.

Jeremiah 10:8

{At the same time} they are stupid and foolish, [in the] instruction of idols, it [is] wood.

Jeremiah 17:11

[Like] a partridge that hatches eggs it did not lay [is] one who amasses wealth without justice. In the middle of his days it will leave him, and at his end he will [prove to] be a fool."

Romans 5:12-14

Because of this, just as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin, so also death spread to all people because all sinned.

1 Timothy 6:6-10

But godliness with contentment is a great means of gain.

Hebrews 9:27

And {just as} it is destined for people to die once, and after this, judgment,