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Jacob heard that Laban's sons were complaining, "Jacob has taken everything that belonged to our father! He has gotten rich at our father's expense!"

Verse ConceptsEnvy, Example OfGetting RichTaking Possessions

When they arrived at the threshing floor of Kidon, Uzzah reached out his hand to take hold of the ark, because the oxen stumbled.

Verse ConceptsThreshing FloorSacrilege

He gives back the ill-gotten gain without assimilating it; he will not enjoy the wealth from his commerce.

Verse ConceptsDrawbacks To Riches

Like a cage filled with the birds that have been caught, their houses are filled with the gains of their fraud and deceit. That is how they have gotten so rich and powerful.

Verse ConceptsCagesMen DeceivingGetting RichBirds

The person who gathers wealth by unjust means is like the partridge that broods over eggs but does not hatch them. Before his life is half over he will lose his ill-gotten gains. At the end of his life it will be clear he was a fool."

Verse ConceptsFools, Characteristics OfManipulationInjustice, Examples OfMaterialism, As An Aspect Of SinMoney, Stewardship OfProfitsRich, TheRiches, Ungodly Use OfBusiness EthicsBirds, Figurative UseUnjust GainDishonesty CondemnedAnimal ReproductionPartridgesFoolish PeopleMisrepresentationGetting RichFools

All the women who are left in the royal palace of Judah will be led out to the officers of the king of Babylon. They will taunt you saying, 'Your trusted friends misled you; they have gotten the best of you. Now that your feet are stuck in the mud, they have turned their backs on you.'

Verse ConceptsMarshesMen DeceivingFriends Failing

They made your oars from oaks of Bashan; they made your deck with cypresses from the Kittean isles.

Verse ConceptsIvoryShipsOaks

He saw two boats by the lake, but the fishermen had gotten out of them and were washing their nets.

Verse ConceptsFishermenFishingClean ObjectsTwo Other Things

For all the nations have fallen from the wine of her immoral passion, and the kings of the earth have committed sexual immorality with her, and the merchants of the earth have gotten rich from the power of her sensual behavior."

Verse ConceptsBabylonExcessdrinkingWineCommerceDelicaciesMetaphorical WineAll NationsThey Committed Immorality