7 Bible Verses about Transient Wealth

As soon as your eyes fly to it, it disappears,
for it makes wings for itself
and flies like an eagle to the sky.

for wealth is not forever;
not even a crown lasts for all time.

He will no longer be rich; his wealth will not endure.
His possessions will not increase in the land.

Won’t all of these take up a taunt against him,
with mockery and riddles about him?
They will say:

Woe to him who amasses what is not his—
how much longer?—
and loads himself with goods taken in pledge.

For you know that you were redeemed from your empty way of life inherited from the fathers, not with perishable things like silver or gold,

So we do not focus on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.

“Lord, reveal to me the end of my life
and the number of my days.
Let me know how short-lived I am.