Ezekiel 28:4

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⁴By your wisdom and understanding
you have gained wealth for yourself
and amassed gold and silver
in your treasuries.^(A)

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Proverbs 23:4-5

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Saying 8

⁴Do not wear yourself out to get rich;
    do not trust your own cleverness.
⁵Cast but a glance at riches, and they are gone,^(A)
    for they will surely sprout wings
    and fly off to the sky like an eagle.^(B)

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Proverbs 18:11

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¹¹The wealth of the rich is their fortified city;^(A)
they imagine it a wall too high to scale.

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Deuteronomy 8:17-18

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¹⁷You may say to yourself,^(A) “My power and the strength of my hands^(B) have produced this wealth for me.” ¹⁸But remember the Lord your God, for it is he who gives you the ability to produce wealth,^(C) and so confirms his covenant, which he swore to your ancestors, as it is today.

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Zechariah 9:2-4

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²and on Hamath^(A) too, which borders on it,
    and on Tyre^(B) and Sidon,^(C) though they are very skillful.
³Tyre has built herself a stronghold;
    she has heaped up silver like dust,
    and gold like the dirt of the streets.^(D)
⁴But the Lord will take away her possessions
    and destroy^(E) her power on the sea,
    and she will be consumed by fire.^(F)

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Habakkuk 1:16

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¹⁶Therefore he sacrifices to his net
and burns incense^(A) to his dragnet,
for by his net he lives in luxury
and enjoys the choicest food.

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Ezekiel 29:3

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³Speak to him and say: ‘This is what the Sovereign Lord says:

“‘I am against you, Pharaoh^(A) king of Egypt,
you great monster^(B) lying among your streams.
You say, “The Nile^(C) belongs to me;
I made it for myself.”

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Ecclesiastes 9:11

New International Version

¹¹I have seen something else under the sun:

The race is not to the swift
    or the battle to the strong,^(A)
nor does food come to the wise^(B)
    or wealth to the brilliant
    or favor to the learned;
but time and chance^(C) happen to them all.^(D)