Psalm 49:10

Misplaced Trust In Wealth

⁹ so they should live forever and never see the grave (pit) (destruction). ¹⁰ For he sees that even wise men die;
The stupid and the senseless alike perish
And leave their wealth to others.
¹¹ Inwardly they think their houses are forever, their dwelling place to all generations. So they named their lands after themselves.

Wise Men

Psalm 39:6

Every man walks about like a vain illusion. He makes a lot of noise over nothing. He hoards riches and does not know who will receive them.

Psalm 94:8

Pay attention, you stupid (senseless) people! When will you become wise, you fools?

Psalm 73:22

I was so foolish and ignorant: I was like a beast before you.

Proverbs 30:2

Surely I am more stupid then any man, and do not have the understanding of a man.

Luke 12:20

But God said to him: 'You fool this night you will give up your life. Then who will have all these things you accumulated?'

Psalm 17:14

With your power (by your hand) rescue me from mortals, O Jehovah, from mortals who look forward only to this life. You fill their bellies with your treasure. Their children are satisfied with it, and they leave what remains to their children.

Psalm 49:17

He will not take anything with him when he dies. Even his greatness cannot follow him.

Psalm 92:6-7

A stupid (senseless) person cannot know and a fool cannot understand.

Proverbs 11:4

Riches do not profit in the day of wrath. Righteousness delivers from death.

Proverbs 12:1

Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge. He that hates reproof is stupid.

Ecclesiastes 2:16-21

Neither the wise man nor the foolish man will be remembered for long. All that now is will be forgotten in the days to come. Death comes to both the wise and the foolish.

Ecclesiastes 2:26

To the man who is good, God gives wisdom and knowledge and joy. But to the sinner he gives the work of getting goods together and storing up wealth, to give to him who is good before God. This also is vanity and grasping for the wind.

Ecclesiastes 5:13-16

I have seen a grievous evil under the sun. I have seen riches being hoarded by their owner to his downfall (distress).

Ecclesiastes 9:1-2

I considered all this in my heart and declared that the righteous and their works are in the hand of God. No man knows if love or hatred awaits him in the future.

Jeremiah 10:8

They are very stupid and foolish. They teach vanity to a tree. Their idol is wood!

Jeremiah 17:11

A person who gets rich dishonestly is like a partridge that hatches eggs it did not lay. During his lifetime, he will lose his wealth. In the end, he will be a wicked fool.

Romans 5:12-14

Therefore, through one-man sin entered into the world, and death through sin. So death passed to all men, for all have sinned.

1 Timothy 6:6-10

Godliness with contentment is great gain.

Hebrews 9:27

It is appointed to men once to die, but after this the judgment: