Luke 12:20
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20 But God said to him, (A)‘Fool! (B)This night (C)your soul is required of you, and the things you have prepared, (D)whose will they be?’
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Job 27:8
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Jeremiah 17:11
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11 Like the (A)partridge that gathers a brood that she did not hatch,
so is (B)he who gets riches but not by justice;
(C)in the midst of his days they will leave him,
(D)and at his end he will be a fool.
1 Timothy 6:7
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7 for (A)we brought nothing into the world, and[a] we cannot take anything out of the world.
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- 1 Timothy 6:7 Greek for; some manuscripts insert [it is] certain [that]
Psalm 39:6
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6 Surely a man (A)goes about as a shadow!
Surely for nothing[a] they are in turmoil;
man (B)heaps up wealth and does not know who will gather!
Footnotes
- Psalm 39:6 Hebrew Surely as a breath
James 4:14
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14 yet you do not know what tomorrow will bring. What is your life? For (A)you are a mist that appears for a little time and then vanishes.
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Job 27:16-17
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16 Though he (A)heap up silver like dust,
and pile up clothing like clay,
17 he may pile it up, but the righteous will wear it,
and (B)the innocent will divide the silver.
Luke 16:22-23
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22 The poor man died and was carried by (A)the angels (B)to Abraham's side.[a] The rich man also died and was buried, 23 and in (C)Hades, being in torment, he lifted up his eyes and (D)saw Abraham far off and Lazarus (E)at his side.
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- Luke 16:22 Greek bosom; also verse 23
Psalm 52:5-7
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5 But God will break you down forever;
he will snatch and (A)tear you from your tent;
he will uproot you from (B)the land of the living. Selah
6 The righteous shall (C)see and fear,
and shall (D)laugh at him, saying,
7 “See the man who would not make
God his refuge,
but (E)trusted in the abundance of his riches
and sought refuge in his own destruction!”[a]
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- Psalm 52:7 Or in his work of destruction
Psalm 49:17-19
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17 (A)For when he dies he will (B)carry nothing away;
his glory will not go down after him.
18 For though, while he lives, he counts himself (C)blessed
—and though you get praise when you do well for yourself—
19 his soul will (D)go to the generation of his fathers,
who will never again (E)see light.
1 Thessalonians 5:3
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3 While people are saying, “There is peace and security,” then (A)sudden destruction will come upon them (B)as labor pains come upon a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.
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Luke 11:40
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40 (A)You fools! (B)Did not he who made the outside make the inside also?
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Matthew 24:48-51
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48 But if that wicked servant says to himself, ‘My master (A)is delayed,’ 49 and begins to beat his fellow servants[a] and eats and drinks with (B)drunkards, 50 the master of that servant will come (C)on a day when he does not expect him and at an hour he does not know 51 and will cut him in pieces and put him with the hypocrites. In that place (D)there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
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- Matthew 24:49 Or bondservants
Psalm 73:19
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Nahum 1:10
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10 For they are (A)like entangled thorns,
like drunkards as they drink;
(B)they are consumed like stubble fully dried.
Proverbs 11:4
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Daniel 5:25-30
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25 And this is the writing that was inscribed: Mene, Mene, Tekel, and Parsin. 26 This is the interpretation of the matter: Mene, God has numbered[a] the days of your kingdom and brought it to an end; 27 Tekel, (A)you have been weighed[b] in the balances and found wanting; 28 Peres, your kingdom is divided and given to (B)the Medes and (C)Persians.”[c]
29 Then (D)Belshazzar gave the command, and Daniel (E)was clothed with purple, a chain of gold was put around his neck, and a proclamation was made about him, that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom.
30 (F)That very night (G)Belshazzar the (H)Chaldean king was killed.
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- Daniel 5:26 Mene sounds like the Aramaic for numbered
- Daniel 5:27 Tekel sounds like the Aramaic for weighed
- Daniel 5:28 Peres (the singular of Parsin) sounds like the Aramaic for divided and for Persia
Daniel 5:1-6
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The Handwriting on the Wall
5 (A)King Belshazzar (B)made a great feast for a thousand of his (C)lords and drank wine in front of the thousand.
2 (D)Belshazzar, when he tasted the wine, commanded that (E)the vessels of gold and of silver that Nebuchadnezzar his father[a] had taken out of the temple in Jerusalem be brought, that the king and his lords, his wives, and his concubines might drink from them. 3 Then they brought in (F)the golden vessels that had been taken out of the temple, the house of God in Jerusalem, and the king and his lords, his wives, and his concubines drank from them. 4 They drank wine and (G)praised the (H)gods of gold and silver, bronze, iron, wood, and stone.
5 (I)Immediately (J)the fingers of a human hand appeared and wrote on the plaster of the wall of the king's palace, opposite the lampstand. And the king saw (K)the hand as it wrote. 6 (L)Then the king's color changed, (M)and his thoughts alarmed him; (N)his limbs gave way, and (O)his knees knocked together.
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- Daniel 5:2 Or predecessor; also verses 11, 13, 18
Ecclesiastes 5:14-16
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14 and those riches were lost in a bad venture. And he is father of a son, but he has nothing in his hand. 15 (A)As he came from his mother's womb he shall go again, naked as he came, and shall take nothing for his toil that he may carry away in his hand. 16 This also is a grievous evil: just as he came, so shall he go, and what (B)gain is there to him who (C)toils for the wind?
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Ecclesiastes 2:18-22
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The Vanity of Toil
18 I hated (A)all my toil in which I toil under the sun, seeing that I must (B)leave it to the man who will come after me, 19 and who knows whether he will be wise or a fool? Yet he will be master of all for which I toiled and used my wisdom under the sun. This also is vanity. 20 So I (C)turned about and gave my heart up to despair (D)over all the toil of my labors under the sun, 21 because sometimes a person who has toiled with wisdom and knowledge and skill must leave everything to be enjoyed by someone who did not toil for it. This also is vanity and a great evil. 22 What has a man from (E)all the toil and striving of heart with which he toils beneath the sun?
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Proverbs 28:8
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8 Whoever multiplies his wealth (A)by interest and profit[a]
(B)gathers it for him who is (C)generous to the poor.
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- Proverbs 28:8 That is, profit that comes from charging interest to the poor
Psalm 78:30
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30 But before they had satisfied their craving,
(A)while the food was still in their mouths,
Job 20:20-23
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20 “Because he (A)knew no (B)contentment in his belly,
(C)he will not let anything in which he delights escape him.
21 There was nothing left after he had eaten;
therefore his prosperity will not endure.
22 In the fullness of his sufficiency he will be in distress;
the hand of everyone in misery will come against him.
23 To fill his belly to the full,
God[a] will send his burning anger against him
and rain it upon him (D)into his body.
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- Job 20:23 Hebrew he
Esther 8:1-2
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Esther Saves the Jews
8 On that day King Ahasuerus gave to Queen Esther the house of Haman, (A)the enemy of the Jews. And Mordecai came before the king, for Esther had told (B)what he was to her. 2 (C)And the king took off his signet ring, which he had taken from Haman, and gave it to Mordecai. And Esther set Mordecai over the house of Haman.
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Esther 5:11
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11 And Haman recounted to them the splendor of his riches, (A)the number of his sons, all the promotions with which (B)the king had honored him, and how he had advanced him above the officials and the servants of the king.
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