Bible Verses About The Rich

Their eyes stand out with fatness: They have more than heart could wish.

They scoff, and in wickedness utter oppression: They speak loftily.

They have set their mouth in the heavens, And their tongue walketh through the earth.

Therefore his people return hither: And waters of a fullcupare drained by them.

And they say, How doth God know? And is there knowledge in the Most High?

Behold, these are the wicked; And, being alway at ease, they increase in riches.

Surely in vain have I cleansed my heart, And washed my hands in innocency;

For all the day long have I been plagued, And chastened every morning.

If I had said, I will speak thus; Behold, I had dealt treacherously with the generation of thy children.

When I thought how I might know this, It was too painful for me;

Until I went into the sanctuary of God, And considered their latter end.

Surely thou settest them in slippery places: Thou castest them down to destruction.

How are they become a desolation in a moment! They are utterly consumed with terrors.

As a dream when one awaketh, So, O Lord, when thou awakest, thou wilt despise their image.

For my soul was grieved, And I was pricked in my heart:

So brutish was I, and ignorant; I wasasa beast before thee.

The poor is hated even of his own neighbor; But the rich hath many friends.

The rich man’s wealth is his strong city, And as a high wall in his own imagination.

The poor useth entreaties; But the rich answereth roughly.

The rich man is wise in his own conceit; But the poor that hath understanding searcheth him out.

There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept by the owner thereof to his hurt:

and those riches perish by evil adventure; and if he hath begotten a son, there is nothing in his hand.

Every man also to whom God hath given riches and wealth, and hath given him power to eat thereof, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his labor—this is the gift of God.

For he shall not much remember the days of his life; because God answereth him in the joy of his heart.

How can I pardon thee? thy children have forsaken me, and sworn by them that are no gods. When I had fed them to the full, they committed adultery, and assembled themselves in troops at the harlots’ houses;