Psalm 49:10

Misplaced Trust In Wealth

⁹ Yea, though he live long, and see not the grave. ¹⁰ For he seeth that wise men also die and perish together, as well as the ignorant and foolish, and leave their riches for others. ¹¹ And yet they think that their houses shall continue forever, and that their dwelling-places shall endure from one generation to another; and call the lands after their own names.

Wise Men

Psalm 39:6

Yea every man walketh as it were a shadow, and disquieteth himself in vain: he heapeth up riches, and cannot tell who shall gather them.

Psalm 94:8

Take heed, ye unwise among the people: O ye fools, when will ye understand?

Psalm 73:22

So foolish was I, and ignorant, even as it were a beast before thee.

Proverbs 30:2

For though I am the least of all, and have no man's understanding

Luke 12:20

But God said unto him, 'Thou fool, this night will they fetch away thy soul again from thee. Then whose shall those things be which thou hast provided?'

Psalm 17:14

From the men of thy hand, O LORD, from the men, I say, and from the evil world, which have their portion in this life, whose bellies thou fillest with thy hid treasure.

Psalm 49:17

for he shall carry nothing away with him when he dieth, neither shall his pomp follow him.

Psalm 92:6-7

An unwise man will not know this, and a fool will not understand it -

Proverbs 11:4

Riches help not in the day of vengeance; but righteousness delivereth from death.

Proverbs 12:1

Whoso loveth wisdom, will be content to be reformed; but he that hateth to be reproved, is a fool.

Ecclesiastes 2:16-21

For the wise are ever as little in remembrance as the foolish, and all the days for to come shall be forgotten, yea the wise man dieth as well as the fool.

Ecclesiastes 2:26

He giveth unto man, what it pleaseth him; whether it be wisdom, understanding, or gladness. But unto the sinner he giveth weariness and sorrow, that he may gather and heap together the thing, that afterward shall be given unto him whom it pleaseth God. This is now a vain thing, yea a very disquietness and vexation of mind.

Ecclesiastes 5:13-16

Yet is there a sore plague, which I have seen under the sun: namely, riches kept to the hurt of him that hath them in possession.

Ecclesiastes 9:1-2

For all these things purposed I in my mind to seek out. The righteous and wise, yea and their servants also are in the hand of God: and there is no man that knoweth either love or hate, but all things are before them.

Jeremiah 10:8

They are altogether unlearned and unwise. All their cunning is but vanity:

Jeremiah 17:11

The deceitful maketh a nest, but bringeth forth no young: He cometh by riches, but not righteously. In the midst of his life must he leave them behind him, and at the last be found a very fool.

Romans 5:12-14

Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by the means of sin; And so death went over all men, insomuch that all men sinned.

1 Timothy 6:6-10

Godliness is great riches, if a man be content with that he hath.

Hebrews 9:27

And as it is appointed unto men that they shall once die, and then cometh the judgment,