Psalms 39:6
“Surely every man walks like a shadow. Surely they busy themselves in vain. He heaps up, and doesn’t know who shall gather.
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Psalms 39:6
“Surely every man walks like a shadow. Surely they busy themselves in vain. He heaps up, and doesn’t know who shall gather.
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1 Samuel 4:20
About the time of her death the women who stood by her said to her, “Don’t be afraid, for you have given birth to a son.” But she didn’t answer, neither did she regard it.
Job 14:21
His sons come to honor, and he doesn’t know it. They are brought low, but he doesn’t perceive it of them.
Ecclesiastes 9:5
For the living know that they will die, but the dead don’t know anything, neither do they have any more a reward; for their memory is forgotten.
Ecclesiastes 9:10
Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with your might; for there is no work, nor plan, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, where you are going.
Isaiah 63:16
For you are our Father, though Abraham doesn’t know us, and Israel does not acknowledge us. You, Yahweh, are our Father. Our Redeemer from everlasting is your name.
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1 Chronicles 29:15
For we are strangers before you and foreigners, as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are as a shadow, and there is no remaining.
Psalms 39:12
“Hear my prayer, Yahweh, and give ear to my cry. Don’t be silent at my tears. For I am a stranger with you, a foreigner, as all my fathers were.
Psalms 109:23
I fade away like an evening shadow. I am shaken off like a locust.
Ecclesiastes 8:13
But it shall not be well with the wicked, neither shall he lengthen days like a shadow, because he doesn’t fear God.
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Esther 8:1
On that day, King Ahasuerus gave the house of Haman, the Jews’ enemy, to Esther the queen. Mordecai came before the king; for Esther had told what he was to her.
Psalms 49:6
Those who trust in their wealth, and boast in the multitude of their riches—
Psalms 49:11
Their inward thought is that their houses will endure forever, and their dwelling places to all generations. They name their lands after themselves.
Psalms 52:7
“Behold, this is the man who didn’t make God his strength, but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness.”
Proverbs 15:16
Better is little, with the fear of Yahweh, than great treasure with trouble.
Proverbs 16:16
How much better it is to get wisdom than gold! Yes, to get understanding is to be chosen rather than silver.
Proverbs 27:24
for riches are not forever, nor does the crown endure to all generations.
Proverbs 28:8
He who increases his wealth by excessive interest gathers it for one who has pity on the poor.
1 Timothy 6:7
For we brought nothing into the world, and we certainly can’t carry anything out.
1 Timothy 6:8
But having food and clothing, we will be content with that.
1 Timothy 6:9
But those who are determined to be rich fall into a temptation, a snare, and many foolish and harmful lusts, such as drown men in ruin and destruction.
1 Timothy 6:10
For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some have been led astray from the faith in their greed, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
1 Timothy 6:17
Charge those who are rich in this present age that they not be arrogant, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on the living God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy;
James 5:1
Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming on you.
James 5:2
Your riches are corrupted and your garments are moth-eaten.
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Job 4:19
How much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!
Job 14:3
Do you open your eyes on such a one, and bring me into judgment with you?
Psalms 39:8
Deliver me from all my transgressions. Don’t make me the reproach of the foolish.
Psalms 39:11
When you rebuke and correct man for iniquity, you consume his wealth like a moth. Surely every man is but a breath.” Selah.
Psalms 90:9
For all our days have passed away in your wrath. We bring our years to an end as a sigh.
Psalms 90:11
Who knows the power of your anger, your wrath according to the fear that is due to you?
James 1:10
and the rich, in that he is made humble, because like the flower in the grass, he will pass away.
James 1:11
For the sun arises with the scorching wind and withers the grass; and the flower in it falls, and the beauty of its appearance perishes. So the rich man will also fade away in his pursuits.
1 Peter 1:24
For, “All flesh is like grass, and all of man’s glory like the flower in the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls;
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Psalms 45:14
She shall be led to the king in embroidered work. The virgins, her companions who follow her, shall be brought to you.
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Psalms 119:84
How many are the days of your servant? When will you execute judgment on those who persecute me?
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Psalms 127:2
It is vain for you to rise up early, to stay up late, eating the bread of toil, for he gives sleep to his loved ones.
Isaiah 55:2
Why do you spend money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which doesn’t satisfy? Listen diligently to me, and eat that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in richness.
Luke 12:26
If then you aren’t able to do even the least things, why are you anxious about the rest?
Luke 12:29
“Don’t seek what you will eat or what you will drink; neither be anxious.
1 Peter 5:7
casting all your worries on him, because he cares for you.
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Ecclesiastes 2:2
I said of laughter, “It is foolishness;” and of mirth, “What does it accomplish?”
Ecclesiastes 2:3
I searched in my heart how to cheer my flesh with wine, my heart yet guiding me with wisdom, and how to lay hold of folly, until I might see what it was good for the sons of men that they should do under heaven all the days of their lives.
Ecclesiastes 2:4
I made myself great works. I built myself houses. I planted myself vineyards.
Ecclesiastes 2:5
I made myself gardens and parks, and I planted trees in them of all kinds of fruit.
Ecclesiastes 2:6
I made myself pools of water, to water the forest where trees were grown.
Ecclesiastes 2:7
I bought male servants and female servants, and had servants born in my house. I also had great possessions of herds and flocks, above all who were before me in Jerusalem.
Ecclesiastes 2:9
So I was great, and increased more than all who were before me in Jerusalem. My wisdom also remained with me.
Ecclesiastes 2:10
Whatever my eyes desired, I didn’t keep from them. I didn’t withhold my heart from any joy, for my heart rejoiced because of all my labor, and this was my portion from all my labor.
Ecclesiastes 3:19
For that which happens to the sons of men happens to animals. Even one thing happens to them. As the one dies, so the other dies. Yes, they have all one breath; and man has no advantage over the animals, for all is vanity.
Ecclesiastes 4:4
Then I saw all the labor and achievement that is the envy of a man’s neighbor. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.
Ecclesiastes 6:11
For there are many words that create vanity. What does that profit man?
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Luke 16:27
“He said, ‘I ask you therefore, father, that you would send him to my father’s house—
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Luke 16:28
for I have five brothers—that he may testify to them, so they won’t also come into this place of torment.’
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Matthew 24:35
Heaven and earth will pass away, but my words will not pass away.
Romans 8:20
For the creation was subjected to vanity, not of its own will, but because of him who subjected it, in hope
1 Peter 4:7
But the end of all things is near. Therefore be of sound mind, self-controlled, and sober in prayer.
2 Peter 3:8
But don’t forget this one thing, beloved, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.
2 Peter 3:9
The Lord is not slow concerning his promise, as some count slowness; but he is patient with us, not wishing that anyone should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
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