Psalm 49:10

Misplaced Trust In Wealth

⁹ And still he liveth for ever, He seeth not the pit. ¹⁰ For he seeth wise men die, Together the foolish and brutish perish, And have left to others their wealth. ¹¹ Their heart is: Their houses are to the age, Their tabernacles to all generations. They proclaimed their names over the lands.

Wise Men

Psalm 39:6

Only, in an image doth each walk habitually, Only, in vain, they are disquieted, He heapeth up and knoweth not who gathereth them.

Psalm 94:8

Consider, ye brutish among the people, And ye foolish, when do ye act wisely?

Psalm 73:22

And I am brutish, and do not know. A beast I have been with Thee.

Proverbs 30:2

For I am more brutish than any one, And have not the understanding of a man.

Luke 12:20

And God said to him, Unthinking one! this night thy soul they shall require from thee, and what things thou didst prepare -- to whom shall they be?

Psalm 17:14

From men, Thy hand, O Jehovah, From men of the world, their portion is in life, And with Thy hidden things Thou fillest their belly, They are satisfied with sons; And have left their abundance to their sucklings.

Psalm 49:17

For at his death he receiveth nothing, His honour goeth not down after him.

Psalm 92:6-7

A brutish man doth not know, And a fool understandeth not this; --

Proverbs 11:4

Wealth profiteth not in a day of wrath, And righteousness delivereth from death.

Proverbs 12:1

Whoso is loving instruction, is loving knowledge, And whoso is hating reproof is brutish.

Ecclesiastes 2:16-21

That there is no remembrance to the wise -- with the fool -- to the age, for that which is already, in the days that are coming is all forgotten, and how dieth the wise? with the fool!

Ecclesiastes 2:26

For to a man who is good before Him, He hath given wisdom, and knowledge, and joy; and to a sinner He hath given travail, to gather and to heap up, to give to the good before God. Even this is vanity and vexation of spirit.

Ecclesiastes 5:13-16

There is a painful evil I have seen under the sun: wealth kept for its possessor, for his evil.

Ecclesiastes 9:1-2

But all this I have laid unto my heart, so as to clear up the whole of this, that the righteous and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God, neither love nor hatred doth man know, the whole is before them.

Jeremiah 10:8

And in one they are brutish and foolish, An instruction of vanities is the tree itself.

Jeremiah 17:11

A partridge hatching, and not bringing forth, Is one making wealth, and not by right, In the midst of his days he doth forsake it, And in his latter end -- he is a fool.

Romans 5:12-14

because of this, even as through one man the sin did enter into the world, and through the sin the death; and thus to all men the death did pass through, for that all did sin;

1 Timothy 6:6-10

but it is great gain -- the piety with contentment;

Hebrews 9:27

and as it is laid up to men once to die, and after this -- judgment,