Psalm 49:10
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10 For he sees (A)that even the wise die;
(B)the fool and the stupid alike must perish
and (C)leave their wealth to others.
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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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
Hebrews 9:27
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27 And just as (A)it is appointed for man to die once, and (B)after that comes judgment,
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Jeremiah 10:8
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Ecclesiastes 5:13-16
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13 (A)There is a grievous evil that I have seen under the sun: riches were kept by their owner to his hurt, 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 (B)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 (C)gain is there to him who (D)toils for the wind?
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Proverbs 30:2
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2 Surely I am too (A)stupid to be a man.
I have not the understanding of a man.
Psalm 94:8
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8 (A)Understand, O dullest of the people!
Fools, when will you be wise?
Psalm 73:22
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1 Timothy 6:6-10
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6 But (A)godliness (B)with contentment is great gain, 7 for (C)we brought nothing into the world, and[a] we cannot take anything out of the world. 8 But (D)if we have food and clothing, with these we will be content. 9 But (E)those who desire to be rich fall into temptation, (F)into a snare, into many senseless and harmful desires that (G)plunge people into ruin and destruction. 10 For the love of money is a root of (H)all kinds of evils. It is through this craving that some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pangs.
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- 1 Timothy 6:7 Greek for; some manuscripts insert [it is] certain [that]
Romans 5:12-14
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Death in Adam, Life in Christ
12 Therefore, just as (A)sin came into the world through one man, and (B)death through sin, and (C)so death spread to all men[a] because (D)all sinned— 13 for sin indeed was in the world before the law was given, but (E)sin is not counted where there is no law. 14 Yet death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those whose sinning was not (F)like the transgression of Adam, (G)who was a type of (H)the one who was to come.
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- Romans 5:12 The Greek word anthropoi refers here to both men and women; also twice in verse 18
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.
Ecclesiastes 9:1-2
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Death Comes to All
9 But all this I laid to heart, examining it all, (A)how the righteous and the wise and their deeds are (B)in the hand of God. Whether it is love or hate, man does not know; both are before him. 2 (C)It is the same for all, since (D)the same event happens to the righteous and the wicked, to the good and the evil,[a] to the clean and the unclean, to him who sacrifices and him who does not sacrifice. As the good one is, so is the sinner, and he who (E)swears is as he who shuns an oath.
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- Ecclesiastes 9:2 Septuagint, Syriac, Vulgate; Hebrew lacks and the evil
Ecclesiastes 2:26
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26 For to the one who pleases him (A)God has given wisdom and knowledge and joy, but to the sinner he has given (B)the business of gathering and collecting, (C)only to give to one who pleases God. (D)This also is vanity and a striving after wind.
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Ecclesiastes 2:16-21
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16 For of the wise as of the fool there is (A)no enduring remembrance, seeing that in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. (B)How the wise dies just like the fool! 17 So I hated life, because what is done under the sun was grievous to me, for (C)all is vanity and a striving after wind.
The Vanity of Toil
18 I hated (D)all my toil in which I toil under the sun, seeing that I must (E)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 (F)turned about and gave my heart up to despair (G)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.
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Proverbs 12:1
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Proverbs 11:4
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Psalm 92:6-7
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6 The stupid man cannot know;
the fool cannot understand this:
7 that though (A)the wicked sprout like grass
and all (B)evildoers flourish,
they are doomed to destruction forever;
Psalm 49:17
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Psalm 17:14
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14 from men by your hand, O Lord,
from (A)men of the world whose (B)portion is in this life.[a]
You fill their womb with treasure;[b]
they are satisfied with (C)children,
and they leave their abundance to their infants.
Footnotes
- Psalm 17:14 Or from men whose portion in life is of the world
- Psalm 17:14 Or As for your treasured ones, you fill their womb
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