Psalm 49:10

Misplaced Trust In Wealth

⁹ yea, he shall yet live forever; he shall never see corruption. ¹⁰ For he sees wise men die; likewise the fool and the animal-like ones perish, and leave their wealth to others. ¹¹ Their inward thought is that their houses shall go on forever, and their dwelling-places to all generations; they call their lands after their own names.

Wise Men

Psalm 39:6

Surely a man walks about like a shadow! Surely they are in an uproar in vain. He heaps up, and does not know who shall gather them.

Psalm 94:8

Understand, you beastly ones among the people; and fools, when will you be wise?

Psalm 73:22

So foolish was I, and I did not know; I was like a beast before You.

Proverbs 30:2

Surely I am more like an animal than any man, and do not have the understanding of a man.

Luke 12:20

But God said to him, Fool! This night your soul shall be required of you, then whose shall be those things which you have prepared?

Psalm 17:14

from men by Your hand, O Jehovah, from men of the world whose portion is in this life, and whose belly You fill with Your treasure. They are satisfied with sons, and will leave their riches to their babes.

Psalm 49:17

for when he dies he shall take nothing away; his glory shall not go down after him.

Psalm 92:6-7

A beastly man does not know; nor does a fool understand this.

Proverbs 11:4

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

Proverbs 12:1

Whoever loves instruction loves knowledge; but he who hates correction is like a brute animal.

Ecclesiastes 2:16-21

For there is no memory of the wise more than of the fool forever, since that which is now shall all be forgotten in the days to come. And how does the wise die above the fool!

Ecclesiastes 2:26

For God gives wisdom, and knowledge, and joy to a man who is good in His sight. But to the sinner He gives labor, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him who is good before God. This also is vanity and vexation of spirit.

Ecclesiastes 5:13-16

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

Ecclesiastes 9:1-2

For all this I took to heart, even to make all this clear, 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 all at once foolish and animal-like; the tree is an example of vanities.

Jeremiah 17:11

The quail sits on eggs and does not hatch them; in the same way he who gets riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the middle of his days, and in his end he shall be a fool.

Romans 5:12-14

Therefore, even as through one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin, and so death passed on all men inasmuch as all sinned:

1 Timothy 6:6-10

But godliness with contentment is great gain.

Hebrews 9:27

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