Job 20:21
New Living Translation
21 Nothing is left after they finish gorging themselves.
Therefore, their prosperity will not endure.
Luke 16:24-25
New Living Translation
24 “The rich man shouted, ‘Father Abraham, have some pity! Send Lazarus over here to dip the tip of his finger in water and cool my tongue. I am in anguish in these flames.’
25 “But Abraham said to him, ‘Son, remember that during your lifetime you had everything you wanted, and Lazarus had nothing. So now he is here being comforted, and you are in anguish.
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Jeremiah 17:11
New Living Translation
Jeremiah’s Trust in the Lord
11 Like a partridge that hatches eggs she has not laid,
so are those who get their wealth by unjust means.
At midlife they will lose their riches;
in the end, they will become poor old fools.
Job 18:19
New Living Translation
19 They will have neither children nor grandchildren,
nor any survivor in the place where they lived.
Job 15:29
New Living Translation
29 Their riches will not last,
and their wealth will not endure.
Their possessions will no longer spread across the horizon.
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