Bible Verses About Riches

This is what I have seen to be good: that it is appropriate for a person to eat, drink and enjoy the good that results from all his work that he engages in under the sun for all the days of his life that God has given him, for this is his allotted portion.

Also, everyone to whom God has given riches and wealth, along with the power to enjoy it, so that he takes his allotted portion and finds pleasure in his work - this is a gift of God;

for he will not brood over the fact that his life is short, since God keeps him occupied with what will bring him joy.

I have seen another evil under the sun, and it weighs heavily on people:

the case in which God gives someone riches, wealth and honor, so that he lacks nothing that he wants; but God does not give him the power to enjoy them, and some stranger gets to enjoy them - this is meaningless, evil, sick.

Wisdom is good, along with possessions, an advantage to all who see the sun.

For wisdom is a shelter, and money is a shelter, but the advantage of knowledge is that wisdom keeps the one who has it alive.

Parties are made for having a good time, wine adds cheer to life, and money has an answer for everything.

Woe to those who add house to house and join field to field, until there's no room for anyone else, and you live in splendor alone on your land.

Here is what ADONAI says: "The wise man should not boast of his wisdom, the powerful should not boast of his power, the wealthy should not boast of his wealth;

A partridge hatches eggs it did not lay; like this are those who get rich unjustly: in the prime of life their wealth will desert them; in the end they will prove to be fools.

This is why my heart is moaning for Mo'av like funeral flutes, why my heart moans for the men of Kir-Heres like funeral flutes; for the wealth they produced has vanished.

Why do you take such pride in the valleys, your well-watered valleys, rebellious daughter? You trusted in your riches and thought, 'Who can attack me?'

By your wisdom and discernment you have acquired wealth, you have gathered gold and silver into your treasuries.

By your great skill in trading you have increased your wealth, and it is because of your wealth that you have become so proud.

They will lower you into the pit to die a violent death surrounded by the sea.

Efrayim says, 'I have gotten so rich! I have made me a fortune! And in all my profits no one will find anything wrong or sinful.'

They covet fields and seize them; they take over houses as well, doing violence to both owner and house, to people and their inherited land.

Therefore this is what ADONAI says: "Against this family I am planning an evil from which you will not withdraw your necks; nor will you walk with your heads held high, for it will be an evil time."

The rich men there are full of violence, the inhabitants tell lies, with tongues of deceit in their mouths.

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.

Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to save them. On the day of ADONAI's fury, the whole land will be destroyed in the fire of his jealousy. For he will make an end, a horrible end, of all those living in the land."

"The silver is mine, and the gold is mine," says ADONAI-Tzva'ot.