7 Bible Verses about Transient Wealth

When your eyes light on it, it is gone, for suddenly it sprouts wings, flying like an eagle toward heaven.

for riches do not last forever; and does a crown endure to all generations?

he will not be rich, and his wealth will not endure, nor will his possessions spread over the earth;

Shall not all these take up their taunt against him, with scoffing and riddles for him, and say, "Woe to him who heaps up what is not his own-- for how long?-- and loads himself with pledges!"

knowing that you were ransomed from the futile ways inherited from your forefathers, not with perishable things such as silver or gold,

as we look not to the things that are seen but to the things that are unseen. For the things that are seen are transient, but the things that are unseen are eternal.

"O LORD, make me know my end and what is the measure of my days; let me know how fleeting I am!