Are your eyes lifted up to it? it is gone: for wealth takes to itself wings, like an eagle in flight up to heaven.

For wealth is not for ever, and money does not go on for all generations.

He does not get wealth for himself, and is unable to keep what he has got; the heads of his grain are not bent down to the earth.

Will not all these take up a word of shame against him and a bitter saying against him, and say, A curse on him who goes on taking what is not his and is weighted down with the property of debtors!

Being conscious that you have been made free from that foolish way of life which was your heritage from your fathers, not through a payment of things like silver or gold which come to destruction,

While our minds are not on the things which are seen, but on the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are for a time; but the things which are not seen are eternal.

Lord, give me knowledge of my end, and of the measure of my days, so that I may see how feeble I am.