Psalm 52:7
Here is the man who did not make God his strength (refuge) (stronghold). He trusted in the abundance of his riches. He strengthened himself in his wickedness.
Job 31:24-25
If I have made gold my trust, or called fine gold my confidence,
Psalm 49:6-20
They trust their riches and brag about their abundant wealth.
Psalm 62:9-10
Common people are only a vapor in the wind. Important people are only a delusion. When all of them are weighed on a scale, they amount to nothing. They are less than a vapor in the wind.
Psalm 73:7-11
Their eyes stand out with fatness, and their heart's imagination run wild.
Psalm 73:18-20
Surely you set them in slippery places. You threw them down into destruction.
Psalm 146:3-5
Do not trust in princes, in mortal man, in whom there is no salvation.
Ecclesiastes 8:8
No man has the power to restrain the wind, to retain the breath of life. Neither does he have power in the day of death. There is no discharge from that war. Neither will wickedness deliver those who are given to it.
Isaiah 14:16-17
Those who see you stare at you. They look at you closely and say: 'Is this the man who made the earth tremble, who shook the kingdoms,
Jeremiah 17:5
This is what Jehovah says: Cursed is the person who trusts humans, who makes flesh and blood his strength and whose heart turns away from Jehovah.
Hosea 12:7-8
Jehovah says: The merchants use dishonest scales. They love to cheat people.
John 19:5
Jesus came out, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple garment. Pilate said: Look, the man!
1 Timothy 6:17
Command those who are rich in this present system not to be high-minded (arrogant), not to have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, who gives us richly all things to enjoy.