Psalms 49:10

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Surely one sees that even wise people die; fools and spiritually insensitive people all pass away and leave their wealth to others.

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  • Ps 39:6 : 6 Surely people go through life as mere ghosts. Surely they accumulate worthless wealth without knowing who will eventually haul it away.”
  • Luke 12:20 : 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?’
  • Ps 94:8 : 8 Take notice of this, you ignorant people! You fools, when will you ever understand?
  • Ps 73:22 : 22 I was ignorant and lacked insight; I was as senseless as an animal before you.
  • Prov 30:2 : 2 Surely I am more brutish than any other human being, and I do not have human understanding;
  • Eccl 2:16-21 : 16 For the wise man, like the fool, will not be remembered for very long, because in the days to come, both will already have been forgotten. Alas, the wise man dies– just like the fool! 17 So I loathed life because what happens on earth seems awful to me; for all the benefits of wisdom are futile– like chasing the wind. 18 Futility of Being a Workaholic So I loathed all the fruit of my effort, for which I worked so hard on earth, because I must leave it behind in the hands of my successor. 19 Who knows if he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will be master over all the fruit of my labor for which I worked so wisely on earth! This also is futile! 20 So I began to despair about all the fruit of my labor for which I worked so hard on earth. 21 For a man may do his work with wisdom, knowledge, and skill; however, he must hand over the fruit of his labor as an inheritance to someone else who did not work for it. This also is futile, and an awful injustice!
  • Eccl 2:26 : 26 For to the one who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy, but to the sinner, he gives the task of amassing wealth– only to give it to the one who pleases God. This task of the wicked is futile– like chasing the wind!
  • Eccl 5:13-16 : 13 Materialism Thwarts Enjoyment of Life Here is a misfortune on earth that I have seen: Wealth hoarded by its owner to his own misery. 14 Then that wealth was lost through bad luck; although he fathered a son, he has nothing left to give him. 15 Just as he came forth from his mother’s womb, naked will he return as he came, and he will take nothing in his hand that he may carry away from his toil. 16 This is another misfortune: Just as he came, so will he go. What did he gain from toiling for the wind?
  • Eccl 9:1-2 : 1 Everyone Will Die So I reflected on all this, attempting to clear it all up. I concluded that the righteous and the wise, as well as their works, are in the hand of God; whether a person will be loved or hated– no one knows what lies ahead. 2 Everyone shares the same fate– the righteous and the wicked, the good and the bad, the ceremonially clean and unclean, those who offer sacrifices and those who do not. What happens to the good person, also happens to the sinner; what happens to those who make vows, also happens to those who are afraid to make vows.
  • Jer 10:8 : 8 The people of those nations are both stupid and foolish. Instruction from a wooden idol is worthless!
  • Jer 17:11 : 11 The person who gathers wealth by unjust means is like the partridge that broods over eggs but does not hatch them. Before his life is half over he will lose his ill-gotten gains. At the end of his life it will be clear he was a fool.”
  • Ps 92:6-7 : 6 The spiritually insensitive do not recognize this; the fool does not understand this. 7 When the wicked sprout up like grass, and all the evildoers glisten, it is so that they may be annihilated.
  • Ps 49:17 : 17 For he will take nothing with him when he dies; his wealth will not follow him down into the grave.
  • Prov 11:4 : 4 Wealth does not profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death.
  • Prov 12:1 : 1 The one who loves discipline loves knowledge, but the one who hates reproof is stupid.
  • Ps 17:14 : 14 LORD, use your power to deliver me from these murderers, from the murderers of this world! They enjoy prosperity; you overwhelm them with the riches they desire. They have many children, and leave their wealth to their offspring.
  • Rom 5:12-14 : 12 The Amplification of Justification So then, just as sin entered the world through one man and death through sin, and so death spread to all people because all sinned– 13 for before the law was given, sin was in the world, but there is no accounting for sin when there is no law. 14 Yet death reigned from Adam until Moses even over those who did not sin in the same way that Adam(who is a type of the coming one) transgressed.
  • 1 Tim 6:6-9 : 6 Now godliness combined with contentment brings great profit. 7 For we have brought nothing into this world and so we cannot take a single thing out either. 8 But if we have food and shelter, we will be satisfied with that. 9 Those who long to be rich, however, stumble into temptation and a trap and many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction. 10 For the love of money is the root of all evils. Some people in reaching for it have strayed from the faith and stabbed themselves with many pains.
  • Heb 9:27 : 27 And just as people are appointed to die once, and then to face judgment,

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  • Eccl 2:14-16
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    14The wise man can see where he is going, but the fool walks in darkness. Yet I also realized that the same fate happens to them both.

    15So I thought to myself,“The fate of the fool will happen even to me! Then what did I gain by becoming so excessively wise?” So I lamented to myself,“The benefits of wisdom are ultimately meaningless!”

    16For the wise man, like the fool, will not be remembered for very long, because in the days to come, both will already have been forgotten. Alas, the wise man dies– just like the fool!

  • Ps 49:11-13
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    11Their grave becomes their permanent residence, their eternal dwelling place. They name their lands after themselves,

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

    13This is the destiny of fools, and of those who approve of their philosophy.(Selah)

  • Ps 49:9
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    9so that he might continue to live forever and not experience death.

  • Eccl 6:8
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    8So what advantage does a wise man have over a fool? And what advantage does a pauper gain by knowing how to survive?

  • Ps 49:19-20
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    19But he will join his ancestors; they will never again see the light of day.

    20Wealthy people do not understand; they are like animals that perish.

  • Ps 49:17
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    17For he will take nothing with him when he dies; his wealth will not follow him down into the grave.

  • Eccl 2:19
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    19Who knows if he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will be master over all the fruit of my labor for which I worked so wisely on earth! This also is futile!

  • Job 4:21
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    21Is not their excess wealth taken away from them? They die, yet without attaining wisdom.

  • Eccl 10:2-3
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    2Wisdom Can Be Nullified By the Caprice of Rulers A wise person’s good sense protects him, but a fool’s lack of sense leaves him vulnerable.

    3Even when a fool walks along the road he lacks sense, and shows everyone what a fool he is.

  • Eccl 8:10
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    10Contradictions to the Law of Retribution Not only that, but I have seen the wicked approaching and entering the temple, and as they left the holy temple, they boasted in the city that they had done so. This also is an enigma.

  • Ps 92:6
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    6The spiritually insensitive do not recognize this; the fool does not understand this.

  • Eccl 3:18-19
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    18I also thought to myself,“It is for the sake of people, so God can clearly show them that they are like animals.

    19For the fate of humans and the fate of animals are the same: As one dies, so dies the other; both have the same breath. There is no advantage for humans over animals, for both are fleeting.

  • Ps 94:8
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    8Take notice of this, you ignorant people! You fools, when will you ever understand?

  • Eccl 10:14-15
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    14yet a fool keeps on babbling. No one knows what will happen; who can tell him what will happen in the future?

    15The toil of a stupid fool wears him out, because he does not even know the way to the city.

  • Prov 17:24
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    24Wisdom is directly in front of the discerning person, but the eyes of a fool run to the ends of the earth.

  • Prov 14:24
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    24The crown of the wise is their riches, but the folly of fools is folly.

  • Prov 14:33
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    33Wisdom rests in the heart of the discerning; it is not known in the inner parts of fools.

  • Eccl 9:5
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    5For the living know that they will die, but the dead do not know anything; they have no further reward– and even the memory of them disappears.

  • Ps 39:6
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    6Surely people go through life as mere ghosts. Surely they accumulate worthless wealth without knowing who will eventually haul it away.”

  • Eccl 2:21
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    21For a man may do his work with wisdom, knowledge, and skill; however, he must hand over the fruit of his labor as an inheritance to someone else who did not work for it. This also is futile, and an awful injustice!

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

  • Eccl 7:15
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    15Exceptions to the Law of Retribution During the days of my fleeting life I have seen both of these things: Sometimes a righteous person dies prematurely in spite of his righteousness, and sometimes a wicked person lives long in spite of his evil deeds.

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    23Carrying out a wicked scheme is enjoyable to a fool, and so is wisdom for the one who has discernment.

  • 1 Cor 3:19-20
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    19For the wisdom of this age is foolishness with God. As it is written,“He catches the wise in their craftiness.”

    20And again,“The Lord knows that the thoughts of the wise are futile.”

  • Job 11:11
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    11For he knows deceitful men; when he sees evil, will he not consider it?

  • Job 21:13
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    13They live out their years in prosperity and go down to the grave in peace.

  • Ps 146:4
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    4Their life’s breath departs, they return to the ground; on that day their plans die.

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    4The heart of the wise is in the house of mourning, but the heart of fools is in the house of merrymaking.

  • Job 12:2
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    2“Without a doubt you are the people, and wisdom will die with you.

  • Eccl 5:14
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    14Then that wealth was lost through bad luck; although he fathered a son, he has nothing left to give him.

  • Prov 3:35
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    35The wise inherit honor, but he holds fools up to public contempt.

  • Prov 5:23
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    23He will die because there was no discipline; because of the greatness of his folly he will reel.

  • Eccl 9:3
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    3This is the unfortunate fact about everything that happens on earth: the same fate awaits everyone. In addition to this, the hearts of all people are full of evil, and there is folly in their hearts during their lives– then they die.

  • Prov 28:11
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    11A rich person is wise in his own opinion, but a discerning poor person can evaluate him properly.

  • Job 32:9
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    9It is not the aged who are wise, nor old men who understand what is right.

  • Prov 11:29
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    29The one who troubles his family will inherit nothing, and the fool will be a servant to the wise person.

  • Eccl 6:6
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    6if he should live a thousand years twice, yet does not enjoy his prosperity. For both of them die!

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    14Those who are wise store up knowledge, but foolish speech leads to imminent destruction.

  • Eccl 9:16
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    16So I concluded that wisdom is better than might, but a poor man’s wisdom is despised; no one ever listens to his advice.

  • Prov 14:8
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    8The wisdom of the shrewd person is to discern his way, but the folly of fools is deception.

  • Eccl 9:13
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    13Most People Are Not Receptive to Wise Counsel This is what I also observed about wisdom on earth, and it is a great burden to me: