Ecclesiastes 5:14
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14 and those riches were lost in a bad venture; though they are parents of children, they have nothing in their hands.
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Matthew 6:19-20
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Concerning Treasures
19 “Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust[a] consume and where thieves break in and steal,(A) 20 but store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust[b] consumes and where thieves do not break in and steal.(B)
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Haggai 2:16-17
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16 how did you fare?[a] When one came to a heap of twenty measures, there were but ten; when one came to the wine vat to draw fifty measures, there were but twenty.(A) 17 I struck you and every work of your hands with blight and mildew and hail, yet you did not return to me, says the Lord.(B)
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- 2.16 Gk: Heb since they were
Haggai 1:9
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9 You have looked for much, but it came to little, and when you brought it home, I blew it away. Why? says the Lord of hosts. Because my house lies in ruins, while all of you hurry off to your own houses.(A)
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Ecclesiastes 2:26
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26 For to the one who pleases him God gives wisdom and knowledge and joy, but to the sinner he gives the work of gathering and heaping, only to give to one who pleases God. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.(A)
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Proverbs 23:5
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5 When your eyes light upon it, it is gone,
for suddenly it takes wings to itself,
flying like an eagle toward heaven.
Psalm 109:9-12
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9 May his children be orphans
and his wife a widow.(A)
10 May his children wander about and beg;
may they be driven out of[a] the ruins they inhabit.
11 May the creditor seize all that he has;
may strangers plunder the fruits of his toil.(B)
12 May there be no one to do him a kindness
nor anyone to pity his orphaned children.(C)
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- 109.10 Gk: Heb may they seek
Psalm 39:6
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6 Surely everyone goes about like a shadow.
Surely for nothing they are in turmoil;
they heap up and do not know who will gather.(A)
Job 27:16-17
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16 Though they heap up silver like dust
and pile up clothing like clay,(A)
17 they may pile it up, but the just will wear it,
and the innocent will divide the silver.(B)
Job 20:15-29
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15 They swallow down riches and vomit them up again;
God casts them out of their bellies.
16 They will suck the poison of asps;
the tongue of a viper will kill them.(A)
17 They will not look on the rivers,
the streams flowing with honey and curds.(B)
18 They will give back the fruit of their toil
and will not swallow it down;
from the profit of their trading
they will get no enjoyment.(C)
19 For they have crushed and abandoned the poor;
they have seized a house that they did not build.(D)
20 “For they knew no quiet in their bellies;
in their greed they let nothing escape.(E)
21 There was nothing left after they had eaten;
therefore their prosperity will not endure.(F)
22 In full sufficiency they will be in distress;
all the force of misery will come upon them.
23 To fill their belly to the full,
God[a] will send his fierce anger into them
and rain it upon them as their food.(G)
24 They will flee from an iron weapon;
a bronze arrow will strike them through.(H)
25 It is drawn forth and comes out of their body,
and the glittering point comes out of their gall;
terrors come upon them.(I)
26 Utter darkness is laid up for their treasures;
a fire fanned by no one will devour them;
what is left in their tent will be consumed.(J)
27 The heavens will reveal their iniquity,
and the earth will rise up against them.(K)
28 The possessions of their house will be carried away,
dragged off in the day of God’s[b] wrath.(L)
29 This is the portion of the wicked from God,
the heritage decreed for them by God.”(M)
Job 5:5
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5 The hungry eat their harvest,
and they take it even out of the thorns,[a]
and the thirsty[b] pant after their wealth.(A)
1 Kings 14:26
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26 he took away the treasures of the house of the Lord and the treasures of the king’s house; he took everything. He also took away all the shields of gold that Solomon had made,(A)
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1 Samuel 2:36
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36 Everyone who is left in your family shall come and prostrate himself before him for a piece of silver or a loaf of bread and shall say, ‘Please put me in one of the priest’s places, that I may eat a morsel of bread.’ ”(A)
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1 Samuel 2:6-8
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6 The Lord kills and brings to life;
he brings down to Sheol and raises up.(A)
7 The Lord makes poor and makes rich;
he brings low; he also exalts.(B)
8 He raises up the poor from the dust;
he lifts the needy from the ash heap
to make them sit with princes
and inherit a seat of honor.
For the pillars of the earth are the Lord’s,
and on them he has set the world.(C)
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