Bible Verses About Covetousness: General references

"If I made gold my hope, if I said to fine gold, 'You are my security,'

if I took joy in my great wealth, in my having acquired so much;

A lazy man's craving will kill him, because his hands refuse to work -

he covets greedily all day long; but a righteous person gives without holding back.

Don't exhaust yourself in pursuit of wealth; be smart enough to desist

If you make your eyes rush at it, it's no longer there! For wealth will surely grow wings, like an eagle flying off to the sky.

keep falsehood and futility far from me, and give me neither poverty nor wealth. Yes, provide just the food I need today;

for if I have too much, I might deny you and say, "Who is ADONAI?"And if I am poor, I might steal and thus profane the name of my God.

Pointless! Pointless! - says Kohelet -Utterly meaningless! Nothing matters!

What does a person gain from all his labor at which he toils under the sun?

Generations come, generations go, but the earth remains forever.

The sun rises, the sun sets; then it speeds to its place and rises there.

The wind blows south, then it turns north; the wind blows all around and keeps returning to its rounds.

All the rivers flow to the sea, yet the sea is not full; to the place where the rivers flow, there they keep on flowing.

Everything is wearisome, more than one can express; the eye is not satisfied with seeing, the ear not filled up with hearing.

The lover of money never has enough money; the lover of luxury never has enough income. This too is pointless.

When the quantity of goods increases, so does the number of parasites consuming them; so the only advantage to the owner is that he gets to watch them do it.

In you, people take bribes to shed blood; you demand and accept interest on loans; in greed you make profits off your neighbors by extorting them; and you have forgotten me,' says Adonai ELOHIM.

"'Therefore, I am clapping my hands together because of your ill-gotten gains and the blood shed in you.

The evil haul them all up with their hooks, catch them in their fish net, or gather them in their dragnet. Then they rejoice and make merry,

offering sacrifices to their fishnet and burning incense to their dragnet; because through them they live in luxury, with plenty of food to eat.

Truly, wine is treacherous; the arrogant will not live at peace but keeps expanding his desires like Sh'ol; like death, he can never be satisfied; he keeps collecting all the nations for himself, rallying to himself all the peoples.

Won't all these take up taunting him and say about him, in mocking riddles, 'Woe to him who amasses other people's wealth! how long must it go on? and to him who adds to himself the weight of goods taken in pledge!

Won't your own creditors suddenly stand, won't those who make you tremble wake up? You will become their spoil.

Because you plundered many nations, all the rest of the peoples will plunder you; because of the bloodshed and violence done to the land, the city and all who live there.