Verse 7

Saying lo this is the man that put not the Lorde to be his strength: but trusted vnto the multitude of his riches, and strengthed him selfe in his wickednesse.

Referenced Verses

  • Job 31:24-25 : 24 Haue I put my trust in golde? or haue I sayde to the wedge of golde, thou art my confidence? 25 Haue I reioyced because my power was great, and because my hande gat so much?
  • Ps 49:6-9 : 6 There be some that put their trust in their goodes: and boast them selues in the multitude of their riches. 7 But no man at all can redeeme his brother: nor geue a raunsome vnto God for hym. 8 For the redemption of their soule is very costly, and must be let alone for euer: 9 yea though he lyue long and see not the graue. 10 For he seeth that wyse men dye: and that the foole and ignoraunt perishe together, and leaue their riches for other. 11 And yet they thynke that their houses shall continue for euer, and that their dwellyng places shall endure from one generation to another: therfore they call landes after their owne names. 12 Neuerthelesse, man can not abyde in such honour: he is but lyke vnto bruite beastes that perishe. 13 This their way is their foolishnesse: yet their posteritie prayse their saying. Selah. 14 They shalbe put into a graue dead as a sheepe, death shall feede on them: but the ryghteous shall haue dominion of them in the mornyng, their beautie shall consume away, hell shall receaue them from their house. 15 But God wyll delyuer my soule from the place of hell: for he wyll receaue me. Selah. 16 Be not thou afrayde though one be made riche: or yf the glorie of his house be encreased. 17 For he shall cary nothyng away with hym when he dyeth: neither shall his pompe folowe after hym. 18 For whyle he lyued he counted him selfe an happy man: and so long as thou doest well vnto thy selfe, men wyll speake good of thee. 19 But he shal folowe the generations of his fathers: and shall neuer see lyght. 20 A man is in an honourable state, but he wyll not vnderstande it: he is lyke herein vnto bruite beastes that perishe.
  • Ps 62:9-9 : 9 As for the chyldren of men, they be onlye but vanitie, the chyldren of lordes be but a lye: vpon the wayghtes they be altogether lighter then vanitie in selfe. 10 O trust not in wrong dealing and spoyling: geue not your selues vnto vanitie, if riches encrease, set not your heart vpon them.
  • Ps 73:7-9 : 7 Their eyes stande out for fatnesse: and the cogitations of their heartes do passe from them. 8 They make other dissolute, they speake oppression with iniurie: they talke proudely and presumptuously. 9 For they stretch foorth their mouth vnto the heauen: and their tongue goeth through the worlde. 10 Therfore God his people turneth thither: and there is drawen vnto them waters in a full cuppe. 11 And they say, howe shoulde God perceaue it? is there knowledge in the most hyghest?
  • Ps 73:18-20 : 18 Truely thou doest set them in slippery places: and castest them downe headlong for to be destroyed. 19 Oh howe be they brought to a destruction euen vpon a sodayne: they faynt, they consume away for very dread. 20 They be as a dreame to a man after he is once waked: O Lorde thou wylt cause their image to be dispised in the citie.
  • Ps 146:3-5 : 3 His spirite shall depart out of hym, he shall turne agayne to his earth: at that day all his thoughtes shall perishe. 4 Blessed is he vnto whom the God of Iacob is an ayde: his trust is in God his Lorde. 5 Who made heauen and earth, the sea and all that therin is: who mainteyneth the trueth for euer.
  • Eccl 8:8 : 8 Neither is there any man that hath power ouer the spirite to kepe styll the spirite, nor to haue any power in the tyme of death, nor that can make an ende of the battayle, neither may vngodlynesse deliuer them that meddle withall.
  • Isa 14:16-17 : 16 They that see thee shall narowly loke vpon thee, and thinke in them selues, saying: Is this the man that brought all landes in feare, and made the kyngdomes afrayde? 17 Is this he that made the worlde in a maner waste, and layde the cities to the grounde, which let not his prisoners go out?
  • Jer 17:5 : 5 Thus saith the Lorde, Cursed be the man that putteth his trust in man, and that taketh fleshe for his arme, and he whose heart departeth from the Lord.
  • Hos 12:7-8 : 7 He is Chanaan, the ballaunces of deceipt are in his hande, he loueth to oppresse. 8 And Ephraim hath sayde, Tushe I am riche, I haue good enough: in all my workes shall not one iniquitie be founde wherin I haue offended.
  • John 19:5 : 5 Then came Iesus foorth, wearyng a crowne of thorne, and a robe of purple: And he sayth vnto them, beholde the man.
  • 1 Tim 6:17 : 17 Charge them which are riche in this world, that they be not hie minded, nor trust in vncertayne riches: but in ye lyuyng God, which geueth vs aboundauntly all thinges to enioy: