Psalm 62:10

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Psalm 62:10

Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery: if riches increase, set not your heart upon them.

Riches

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Riches

Surely a man walks about as a [mere] {shadow}; surely in vain they bustle about. He heaps up [possessions] but does not know who [will] gather them [in].

"Look, the man [who] would not make God his refuge, but he trusted in the greatness of his wealth; he took refuge in his destructiveness."

"And then it will happen [that] when Yahweh your God will bring you to the land that he swore to your ancestors, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give to you large and fine cities that you did not build,

lest [when] you have eaten and you are satisfied and you have built good houses and you live [in them],

If he heaps up silver like the dust and fashions clothing like the clay,

"If I have made gold my trust, or I have called fine gold my security,

For what does it benefit a person to gain the whole world and forfeit his life?

And Jesus looked around [and] said to his disciples, "How {difficult it is for} those who possess wealth to enter into the kingdom of God!"

And he said to them, "Watch out and guard yourselves from all greediness, because not [even] when someone has an abundance {does} his life [consist] of his possessions."

Command those [who are] rich in this present age not to be proud and not to put their hope in the uncertainty of riches, but in God, who provides us all [things] richly for enjoyment,

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"If I have made gold my trust, or I have called fine gold my security,

The wealth of the rich [is] {his strong city}, and like a wall, it is high in his imagination.

"Vanity of vanities!" says the Teacher, "Vanity of vanities! All [is] vanity!"

"Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and consuming [insect] destroy and where thieves break in and steal,