Job 15:29

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He will not grow rich, and his wealth will not endure, nor will his possessions spread over the land.

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  • Job 27:16-17 : 16 If he piles up silver like dust and stores up clothing like mounds of clay, 17 what he stores up a righteous man will wear, and an innocent man will inherit his silver.
  • Ps 49:16-17 : 16 Do not be afraid when a man becomes rich and his wealth multiplies! 17 For he will take nothing with him when he dies; his wealth will not follow him down into the grave.
  • Luke 12:19-21 : 19 And I will say to myself,“You have plenty of goods stored up for many years; relax, eat, drink, celebrate!”’ 20 But God said to him,‘You fool! This very night your life will be demanded back from you, but who will get what you have prepared for yourself?’ 21 So it is with the one who stores up riches for himself, but is not rich toward God.”
  • Luke 16:2 : 2 So he called the manager in and said to him,‘What is this I hear about you? Turn in the account of your administration, because you can no longer be my manager.’
  • Luke 16:19-22 : 19 The Rich Man and Lazarus“There was a rich man who dressed in purple and fine linen and who feasted sumptuously every day. 20 But at his gate lay a poor man named Lazarus whose body was covered with sores, 21 who longed to eat what fell from the rich man’s table. In addition, the dogs came and licked his sores. 22 “Now the poor man died and was carried by the angels to Abraham’s side. The rich man also died and was buried.
  • Jas 1:11 : 11 For the sun rises with its heat and dries up the meadow; the petal of the flower falls off and its beauty is lost forever. So also the rich person in the midst of his pursuits will wither away.
  • Jas 5:1-3 : 1 Warning to the Rich Come now, you rich! Weep and cry aloud over the miseries that are coming on you. 2 Your riches have rotted and your clothing has become moth-eaten. 3 Your gold and silver have rusted and their rust will be a witness against you. It will consume your flesh like fire. It is in the last days that you have hoarded treasure!
  • Job 20:22-28 : 22 In the fullness of his sufficiency, distress overtakes him. The full force of misery will come upon him. 23 “While he is filling his belly, God sends his burning anger against him, and rains down his blows upon him. 24 If he flees from an iron weapon, then an arrow from a bronze bow pierces him. 25 When he pulls it out and it comes out of his back, the gleaming point out of his liver, terrors come over him. 26 Total darkness waits to receive his treasures; a fire which has not been kindled will consume him and devour what is left in his tent. 27 The heavens reveal his iniquity; the earth rises up against him. 28 A flood will carry off his house, rushing waters on the day of God’s wrath.
  • Job 22:15-20 : 15 Will you keep to the old path that evil men have walked– 16 men who were carried off before their time, when the flood was poured out on their foundations? 17 They were saying to God,‘Turn away from us,’ and‘What can the Almighty do to us?’ 18 But it was he who filled their houses with good things– yet the counsel of the wicked was far from me. 19 The righteous see their destruction and rejoice; the innocent mock them scornfully, saying, 20 ‘Surely our enemies are destroyed, and fire consumes their wealth.’

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    30He will not escape the darkness; a flame will wither his shoots and he will depart by the breath of God’s mouth.

    31Let him not trust in what is worthless, deceiving himself; for worthlessness will be his reward.

    32Before his time he will be paid in full, and his branches will not flourish.

  • Job 15:28
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    28he lived in ruined towns and in houses where no one lives, where they are ready to crumble into heaps.

  • Job 18:14-19
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    14He is dragged from the security of his tent, and marched off to the king of terrors.

    15Fire resides in his tent; over his residence burning sulfur is scattered.

    16Below his roots dry up, and his branches wither above.

    17His memory perishes from the earth, he has no name in the land.

    18He is driven from light into darkness and is banished from the world.

    19He has neither children nor descendants among his people, no survivor in those places he once stayed.

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    19He goes to bed wealthy, but will do so no more. When he opens his eyes, it is all gone.

  • Job 8:15
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    15He leans against his house but it does not hold up, he takes hold of it but it does not stand.

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    16Do not be afraid when a man becomes rich and his wealth multiplies!

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  • Job 7:10
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    10He returns no more to his house, nor does his place of residence know him any more.

  • Job 20:7-9
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    7he will perish forever, like his own excrement; those who used to see him will say,‘Where is he?’

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    9People who had seen him will not see him again, and the place where he was will recognize him no longer.

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    14Then that wealth was lost through bad luck; although he fathered a son, he has nothing left to give him.

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    20For he knows no satisfaction in his appetite; he does not let anything he desires escape.

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    14If his children increase– it is for the sword! His offspring never have enough to eat.

    15Those who survive him are buried by the plague, and their widows do not mourn for them.

  • Eccl 8:13
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    13But it will not go well with the wicked, nor will they prolong their days like a shadow, because they do not stand in fear before God.

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    6They will be like a shrub in the arid rift valley. They will not experience good things even when they happen. It will be as though they were growing in the stony wastes in the wilderness, in a salt land where no one can live.

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    19But he will join his ancestors; they will never again see the light of day.

  • Job 20:26-28
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    26Total darkness waits to receive his treasures; a fire which has not been kindled will consume him and devour what is left in his tent.

    27The heavens reveal his iniquity; the earth rises up against him.

    28A flood will carry off his house, rushing waters on the day of God’s wrath.

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    19Would your wealth sustain you, so that you would not be in distress, even all your mighty efforts?

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    21Terrifying sounds fill his ears; in a time of peace marauders attack him.

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    2He grows up like a flower and then withers away; he flees like a shadow, and does not remain.

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    10But the rich person’s pride should be in his humiliation, because he will pass away like a wildflower in the meadow.

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    28The one who trusts in his riches will fall, but the righteous will flourish like a green leaf.

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    18“You say,‘He is foam on the face of the waters; their portion of the land is cursed so that no one goes to their vineyard.

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    24for riches do not last forever, nor does a crown last from generation to generation.

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    9so that he might continue to live forever and not experience death.

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    12but, despite their wealth, people do not last, they are like animals that perish.

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    7which cannot fill the reaper’s hand, or the lap of the one who gathers the grain!