Psalms 17:14

Authorized King James Version (1611)

From men [which are] thy hand, O LORD, from men of the world, [which have] their portion in [this] life, and whose belly thou fillest with thy hid [treasure]: they are full of children, and leave the rest of their [substance] to their babes.

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  • Luke 16:25 : 25 ‹But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things: but now he is comforted, and thou art tormented.›
  • Luke 16:8 : 8 ‹And the lord commended the unjust steward, because he had done wisely: for the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light.›
  • Luke 12:19-21 : 19 ‹And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink,› [and] ‹be merry.› 20 ‹But God said unto him,› [Thou] ‹fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided?› 21 ‹So› [is] ‹he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.›
  • Job 22:18 : 18 Yet he filled their houses with good [things]: but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
  • Job 27:14-17 : 14 If his children be multiplied, [it is] for the sword: and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread. 15 Those that remain of him shall be buried in death: and his widows shall not weep. 16 Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare raiment as the clay; 17 He may prepare [it], but the just shall put [it] on, and the innocent shall divide the silver.
  • John 8:23 : 23 And he said unto them, ‹Ye are from beneath; I am from above: ye are of this world; I am not of this world.›
  • John 15:19 : 19 ‹If ye were of the world, the world would love his own: but because ye are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world, therefore the world hateth you.›
  • John 17:14 : 14 ‹I have given them thy word; and the world hath hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.›
  • Ps 49:17-19 : 17 For when he dieth he shall carry nothing away: his glory shall not descend after him. 18 Though while he lived he blessed his soul: and [men] will praise thee, when thou doest well to thyself. 19 He shall go to the generation of his fathers; they shall never see light.
  • Ps 73:3-7 : 3 For I was envious at the foolish, [when] I saw the prosperity of the wicked. 4 For [there are] no bands in their death: but their strength [is] firm. 5 They [are] not in trouble [as other] men; neither are they plagued like [other] men. 6 Therefore pride compasseth them about as a chain; violence covereth them [as] a garment. 7 Their eyes stand out with fatness: they have more than heart could wish.
  • Ps 73:12 : 12 Behold, these [are] the ungodly, who prosper in the world; they increase [in] riches.
  • Prov 2:4 : 4 If thou seekest her as silver, and searchest for her as [for] hid treasures;
  • Matt 13:44 : 44 ¶ ‹Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto treasure hid in a field; the which when a man hath found, he hideth, and for joy thereof goeth and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field.›
  • Job 12:6 : 6 ¶ The tabernacles of robbers prosper, and they that provoke God are secure; into whose hand God bringeth [abundantly].
  • Job 12:9 : 9 Who knoweth not in all these that the hand of the LORD hath wrought this?
  • Job 21:7-9 : 7 ¶ Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are mighty in power? 8 Their seed is established in their sight with them, and their offspring before their eyes. 9 Their houses [are] safe from fear, neither [is] the rod of God upon them. 10 Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf. 11 They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance. 12 They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ. 13 They spend their days in wealth, and in a moment go down to the grave. 14 Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways. 15 What [is] the Almighty, that we should serve him? and what profit should we have, if we pray unto him?
  • Job 21:21 : 21 For what pleasure [hath] he in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off in the midst?
  • Jas 5:5 : 5 Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.
  • 1 John 4:4-5 : 4 ¶ Ye are of God, little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you, than he that is in the world. 5 They are of the world: therefore speak they of the world, and the world heareth them.
  • Ps 39:6 : 6 Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up [riches], and knoweth not who shall gather them.
  • Luke 16:27-28 : 27 ‹Then he said, I pray thee therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him to my father's house:› 28 ‹For I have five brethren; that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment.›

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 3 Lo, children [are] an heritage of the LORD: [and] the fruit of the womb [is his] reward.

  • Ps 104:27-28
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    27 These wait all upon thee; that thou mayest give [them] their meat in due season.

    28 [That] thou givest them they gather: thou openest thine hand, they are filled with good.

  • 13 Arise, O LORD, disappoint him, cast him down: deliver my soul from the wicked, [which is] thy sword:

  • Job 27:13-14
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    13 This [is] the portion of a wicked man with God, and the heritage of oppressors, [which] they shall receive of the Almighty.

    14 If his children be multiplied, [it is] for the sword: and his offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.

  • 16 The heaven, [even] the heavens, [are] the LORD'S: but the earth hath he given to the children of men.

  • 5 [They that were] full have hired out themselves for bread; and [they that were] hungry ceased: so that the barren hath born seven; and she that hath many children is waxed feeble.

  • 8 They shall be abundantly satisfied with the fatness of thy house; and thou shalt make them drink of the river of thy pleasures.

  • 19 ¶ [Oh] how great [is] thy goodness, which thou hast laid up for them that fear thee; [which] thou hast wrought for them that trust in thee before the sons of men!

  • 22 For [such as be] blessed of him shall inherit the earth; and [they that be] cursed of him shall be cut off.

  • 11 Bless, LORD, his substance, and accept the work of his hands: smite through the loins of them that rise against him, and of them that hate him, that they rise not again.

  • 4 For thou hast hid their heart from understanding: therefore shalt thou not exalt [them].

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    2 Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.

  • 14 But those riches perish by evil travail: and he begetteth a son, and [there is] nothing in his hand.

  • 6 ¶ Children's children [are] the crown of old men; and the glory of children [are] their fathers.

  • 10 Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek [their bread] also out of their desolate places.

  • 22 ¶ A good [man] leaveth an inheritance to his children's children: and the wealth of the sinner [is] laid up for the just.

  • 10 ¶ His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods.

  • 7 Shew thy marvellous lovingkindness, O thou that savest by thy right hand them which put their trust [in thee] from those that rise up [against them].

  • 11 [As] the partridge sitteth [on eggs], and hatcheth [them] not; [so] he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool.

  • 11 Rid me, and deliver me from the hand of strange children, whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand [is] a right hand of falsehood:

  • 16 Instead of thy fathers shall be thy children, whom thou mayest make princes in all the earth.

  • 15 As for me, I will behold thy face in righteousness: I shall be satisfied, when I awake, with thy likeness.

  • 21 That I may cause those that love me to inherit substance; and I will fill their treasures.

  • 9 From the wicked that oppress me, [from] my deadly enemies, [who] compass me about.

  • 3 O my mountain in the field, I will give thy substance [and] all thy treasures to the spoil, [and] thy high places for sin, throughout all thy borders.

  • 11 And the LORD shall make thee plenteous in goods, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy ground, in the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers to give thee.

  • 10 Lest strangers be filled with thy wealth; and thy labours [be] in the house of a stranger;

  • 19 O LORD, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and [things] wherein [there is] no profit.

  • Job 3:14-15
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    14 With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;

    15 Or with princes that had gold, who filled their houses with silver:

  • 17 And he hath cast the lot for them, and his hand hath divided it unto them by line: they shall possess it for ever, from generation to generation shall they dwell therein.

  • 17 Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not highminded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy;

  • 21 Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and pour out their [blood] by the force of the sword; and let their wives be bereaved of their children, and [be] widows; and let their men be put to death; [let] their young men [be] slain by the sword in battle.

  • 8 But [as for] the mighty man, he had the earth; and the honourable man dwelt in it.

  • 13 [That] our garners [may be] full, affording all manner of store: [that] our sheep may bring forth thousands and ten thousands in our streets:

  • 14 And I will satiate the soul of the priests with fatness, and my people shall be satisfied with my goodness, saith the LORD.

  • 26 The meek shall eat and be satisfied: they shall praise the LORD that seek him: your heart shall live for ever.

  • 17 Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, upon the son of man [whom] thou madest strong for thyself.

  • 5 The LORD [is] the portion of mine inheritance and of my cup: thou maintainest my lot.

  • 13 That thou mayest give him rest from the days of adversity, until the pit be digged for the wicked.

  • 16 Let thy work appear unto thy servants, and thy glory unto their children.

  • 14 And behold at eveningtide trouble; [and] before the morning he [is] not. This [is] the portion of them that spoil us, and the lot of them that rob us.

  • 2 The LORD will preserve him, and keep him alive; [and] he shall be blessed upon the earth: and thou wilt not deliver him unto the will of his enemies.

  • 17 And thou say in thine heart, My power and the might of [mine] hand hath gotten me this wealth.

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    2 O ye sons of men, how long [will ye turn] my glory into shame? [how long] will ye love vanity, [and] seek after leasing? Selah.

  • 16 Thou openest thine hand, and satisfiest the desire of every living thing.

  • 11 And houses full of all good [things], which thou filledst not, and wells digged, which thou diggedst not, vineyards and olive trees, which thou plantedst not; when thou shalt have eaten and be full;

  • 11 Behold, [I say, how] they reward us, to come to cast us out of thy possession, which thou hast given us to inherit.