Psalm 49:10

Misplaced Trust In Wealth

⁹ And he shall yet live forever, he shall not see destruction. ¹⁰ For he shall see the wise shall die: together the fool and the stupid one shall perish, and they left their wealth to others. ¹¹ The midst of them their houses forever, their dwellings to generation and generation; they called in their names upon their lands.

Wise Men

Psalm 39:6

Surely in a shadow a man will go about: surely they will be disquieted in vain: he will store up, and he knew not who shall gather them.

Psalm 94:8

Understand, ye brutish among the people: and ye foolish, when will ye understand?

Psalm 73:22

And I stupid, and I shall not know, and I was a beast with thee.

Proverbs 30:2

For I am brutish more than man, and not the understanding of a man to me.

Luke 12:20

And God said to him, O foolish one, this night they require thy soul from thee: and what thou hast prepared, to whom shall it be?

Psalm 17:14

From men of thy hand, O Jehovah, from men of this world their portion in life, and thou wilt fill their belly with thy hidden things: they will be filled with sons, they left the remaining things to their children.

Psalm 49:17

For not in his dying shall he take anything: his honor shall not go down after him.

Psalm 92:6-7

A brutish man shall not know, and a fool shall not understand this.

Proverbs 11:4

Wealth will not profit in the day of wrath, and justice will deliver from death.

Proverbs 12:1

He loving instruction loved knowledge: and he hating reproof, is stupid.

Ecclesiastes 2:16-21

For no remembrance for the wise with the foolish one forever, since in the days coming, all being forgotten. And how will the wise die? with the foolish one.

Ecclesiastes 2:26

For to a man good before his face, he gave wisdom and knowledge and gladness: and to him sinning, he gave labor, to gather and to heap up, to give to the good one before the face of God. Also this is vanity and the striving of the spirit.

Ecclesiastes 5:13-16

There is an evil making sick I saw under the sun: riches watched to its owners for their evil.

Ecclesiastes 9:1-2

For all this I gave to my heart, and to examine all this, that the just and the wise and their works are in the hand of God: also love, also hatred, no man shall know of all before them.

Jeremiah 10:8

And in one they will become brutish, and they will be foolish: the tree itself a correction of vanities.

Jeremiah 17:11

The partridge brooded and she brought not forth; to make riches and not in judgment, he shall leave them in the half of his days, and in his latter part he shall be foolish.

Romans 5:12-14

Therefore, as by one man sin came into the world, and by sin death; and so death passed upon all men, in that all have sinned:

1 Timothy 6:6-10

But devotion with contentment is great gain.

Hebrews 9:27

And inasmuch as it is reserved to men once to die, and after this the judgment: