Thematic Bible: Fleeting and uncertain

For to the one who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy, but to the sinner, he gives the task of amassing wealth -- only to give it to the one who pleases God. This task of the wicked is futile -- like chasing the wind! Verse Concepts

When you gaze upon riches, they are gone, for they surely make wings for themselves, and fly off into the sky like an eagle! Verse Concepts

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 Concepts

For we have brought nothing into this world and so we cannot take a single thing out either. Verse Concepts

A flood will carry off his house, rushing waters on the day of God's wrath. Verse Concepts

Surely one sees that even wise people die; fools and spiritually insensitive people all pass away and leave their wealth to others. Verse Concepts

So I loathed all the fruit of my effort, for which I worked so hard on earth, because I must leave it behind in the hands of my successor. Verse Concepts

for riches do not last forever, nor does a crown last from generation to generation. Verse Concepts

Thematic Bible: Fleeting and uncertain

Thematic Bible

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