Bible Verses About The Rich

Even if he piles up silver like dust and stores away clothing [in mounds] like clay -

he may collect it, but the just will wear it, and the upright divide up the silver.

He builds his house weak as a spider's web, as flimsy as a watchman's shack.

He may lie down rich, but his wealth yields nothing; when he opens his eyes, it isn't there.

Terrors overtake him like a flood; at night a whirlwind steals him away.

The east wind carries him off, and he's gone; it sweeps him far from his place.

Yes, it hurls itself at him, sparing nothing; he does all he can to flee from its power.

[People] clap their hands at him in derision and hiss him out of his home.

"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;

then this too would be a criminal offense, for I would have been lying to God on high.

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

For the leader. A maskil of David, when Do'eg from Edom came and told Sha'ul, "David has arrived at the house of Achimelekh": Why do you boast of your evil, you tyrant, when God's mercy is present every day?

Your tongue, as sharp as a razor, plots destruction and works deception.

You love evil more than good, lies rather than speaking uprightly. (Selah)

You love all words that eat people up, you deceitful tongue!

This is why God will strike you down, seize you, pluck you from your tent and uproot you from the land of the living. (Selah)

The righteous will see and be awestruck; they will jeer at him, saying,

"This fellow would not make God his refuge, but trusted in his own great wealth, relying on his evil plots."

when I grew envious of the arrogant and saw how the wicked prosper.

For when their death comes, it is painless; and meanwhile, their bodies are healthy;

they don't have ordinary people's troubles, they aren't plagued like others.

So for them, pride is a necklace; and violence clothes them like a robe.