Psalms 49:10

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that he should live on forever and not see the pit of decay.

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  • Ps 39:6 : 6 Behold, You have made my days a few handbreadths, and my lifetime is as nothing before You. Surely, every man is but a breath. Selah.
  • Luke 12:20 : 20 But God said to him, 'Fool! This very night your soul will be required of you, and the things you have prepared—who will they belong to?'
  • Ps 94:8 : 8 Understand this, you brutish people! Fools, when will you understand?
  • Ps 73:22 : 22 I was senseless and ignorant; I was like a beast before You.
  • Prov 30:2 : 2 Surely I am more ignorant than anyone, and I lack human understanding.
  • Eccl 2:16-21 : 16 For the wise, like the fool, will not be remembered forever; in the days to come, everything will be forgotten. How does the wise person die? Just like the fool! 17 So I hated life, because the work done under the sun was grievous to me. For everything is meaningless, a chasing after the wind. 18 I hated all my toil under the sun because I must leave it to the one who comes after me. 19 And who knows whether that person will be wise or foolish? Yet they will rule over all the fruit of my labor that I have worked for under the sun. This too is meaningless. 20 So I turned my heart to despair over all the hard work with which I had labored under the sun. 21 For there is a person who labors with wisdom, knowledge, and skill, but then must leave everything to someone who has not worked for it. This too is meaningless and a great misfortune.
  • Eccl 2:26 : 26 To the person who pleases Him, God gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy, but to the sinner, He gives the task of gathering and storing wealth to hand it over to the one who pleases God. This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind.
  • Eccl 5:13-16 : 13 Or wealth lost through some misfortune, so that when they have children, there is nothing left for them to inherit. 14 As everyone comes naked from their mother’s womb, so they depart naked as they came. They take nothing from their toil that they can carry in their hands. 15 This too is a grievous evil: As a man comes, so he departs, and what does he gain from all his labor for the wind? 16 Throughout his days, he eats in darkness, with great frustration, sickness, and anger.
  • Eccl 9:1-2 : 1 So I reflected on all this and set my heart to examine it: that the righteous, the wise, and their deeds are in the hand of God. People do not know whether love or hatred awaits them; everything lies before them. 2 Everything happens alike to everyone: the same fate comes to the righteous and the wicked, to the good and the pure and the impure, to those who offer sacrifices and those who do not. As with the good person, so with the sinner; as with those who swear oaths, so with those who avoid them.
  • Jer 10:8 : 8 They are all senseless and foolish; their instruction comes from worthless idols.
  • Jer 17:11 : 11 Like a partridge that hatches eggs it did not lay, so is one who gains wealth by unjust means. In the middle of his life, it will desert him, and in the end, he will prove to be a fool.
  • Ps 92:6-7 : 6 How great are Your works, O LORD! How profound are Your thoughts! 7 A senseless person does not know, and a fool does not understand this:
  • Ps 49:17 : 17 Do not be afraid when a man grows rich, when the glory of his house increases.
  • Prov 11:4 : 4 Riches do not profit on the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death.
  • Prov 12:1 : 1 Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but one who hates correction is senseless.
  • Ps 17:14 : 14 By your hand, Lord, save me from people of this world whose reward is in this life. Fill their bellies with what you have stored up; let their children be satisfied, and let them leave their wealth to their little ones.
  • Rom 5:12-14 : 12 Therefore, just as sin came into the world through one man, and death through sin, so death spread to all people, because all sinned. 13 For sin was in the world before the law was given, but sin is not counted where there is no law. 14 Yet death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over those who did not sin in the likeness of Adam's transgression, who is a type of the One who was to come.
  • 1 Tim 6:6-9 : 6 But godliness with contentment is great gain. 7 For we brought nothing into the world, and we can take nothing out of it. 8 If we have food and clothing, we will be content with these. 9 But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation, a trap, and many foolish and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction. 10 For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil, and by craving it, some have wandered away from the faith and pierced themselves with many pains.
  • Heb 9:27 : 27 And just as it is appointed for humans to die once, and after that comes judgment,

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    15Then I said in my heart, 'What happens to the fool will also happen to me. So why have I been so very wise?' And I concluded in my heart, 'This too is meaningless.'

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    18I said in my heart concerning the matter of the sons of man, that God is testing them to show them that they are like animals.

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