Bible Verses About Ambition

that the triumph of the wicked is always short-lived, and the joy of the ungodly is gone in a moment?

His pride may mount to the heavens, his head may touch the clouds;

but he will vanish completely, like his own dung -those who used to see him will ask, 'Where is he?'

Like a dream he flies off and is not found again; like a vision in the night he is chased away.

The eye which once saw him will see him no more, his place will not behold him again.

They think their homes will last forever, their dwellings through all generations; they give their own names to their estates.

But people, even rich ones, will live only briefly; then, like animals, they will die.

This is the manner of life of the foolish and those who come after, approving their words. (Selah)

Like sheep, they are destined for Sh'ol; death will be their shepherd. The upright will rule them in the morning; and their forms will waste away in Sh'ol, until they need no dwelling.

But God will redeem me from Sh'ol's control, because he will receive me. (Selah)

Don't be afraid when someone gets rich, when the wealth of his family grows.

For when he dies, he won't take it with him; his wealth will not go down after him.

True, while he lived, he thought himself happy people praise you when you do well for yourself

but he will join his ancestors' generations and never again see light.

People, even rich ones, can fail to grasp that, like animals, they will die.

"How did you come to fall from the heavens, morning star, son of the dawn? How did you come to be cut to the ground, conqueror of nations?

You thought to yourself, 'I will scale the heavens, I will raise my throne above God's stars. I will sit on the Mount of Assembly far away in the north.

I will rise past the tops of the clouds, I will make myself like the Most High.'

"Instead you are brought down to Sh'ol, to the uttermost depths of the pit.