Bible Verses About The Rich

If he shall heap together silver as earth, and prepare raiment as clay,

He shall prepare indeed, but the just man shall be clothed with it: and the innocent shall divide the silver.

He hath built his house as a moth, and as a keeper he hath made a booth.

The rich man when he shall sleep shall take away nothing with him: he shall open his eyes and find nothing.

Poverty like water shall take hold on him, a tempest shall oppress him in the night:

A burning wind shall take him up, and carry him away, and as a whirlwind shall snatch him from his place.

And he shall cast upon him, and shall not spare: out of his hand he would willingly flee.

He shall clasp his hands upon him, and shall hiss at him, beholding his place.

If I have thought gold my strength, and have said to fine gold: My confidence:

If I have rejoiced over my great riches, and because my hand had gotten much.

Which is a very great iniquity, and a denial against the most high God.

But to the sinner God hath said: Why dost thou declare my justices, and take my covenant in thy mouth?

Seeing thou hast hated discipline: and hast cast my words behind thee.

If thou didst see a thief thou didst run with him: and with adulterers thou hast been a partaker.

Unto the end, for Maeleth, understandings to David. The fool said in his heart: There is no God.

They are corrupted, and become abominable in iniquities: there is none that doth good.

God looked down from heaven on the children of men: to see if there were any that did understand, or did seek God.

All have gone aside, they are become unprofitable together, there is none that doth good, no not one.

Shall not all the workers of iniquity know, who eat up my people as they eat bread?

They have not called upon God: there have they trembled for fear, where there was no fear. For God hath scattered the bones of them that please men: they have been confounded, because God hath despised them.

Who will give out of Sion the salvation of Israel? when God shall bring back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.

Lift up thy hands against their pride unto the end; see what things the enemy hath done wickedly in the sanctuary.

And they that hate thee have made their boasts, in the midst of thy solemnity. They have set up their ensigns for signs,

And they knew not both in the going out and on the highest top. As with axes in a wood of trees,

They have cut down at once the gates thereof, with axe and hatchet they have brought it down.