Bible Verses About The Rich

Though he shoulde heape vp siluer as the dust, and prepare rayment as the clay,

He may prepare it, but the iust shall put it on, and the innocent shall deuide the siluer.

He buildeth his house as the moth, and as a lodge that the watchman maketh.

When the rich man sleepeth, he shall not be gathered to his fathers: they opened their eyes, and he was gone.

Terrours shall take him as waters, and a tempest shall cary him away by night.

The East winde shall take him away, and he shall depart: and it shall hurle him out of his place.

And God shall cast vpon him and not spare, though he would faine flee out of his hand.

Euery man shall clap their hands at him, and hisse at him out of their place.

If I made gold mine hope, or haue sayd to the wedge of golde, Thou art my confidence,

If I reioyced because my substance was great, or because mine hand had gotten much,

(This also had bene an iniquitie to be condemned: for I had denied the God aboue)

Be not thou afrayd when one is made rich, and when the glory of his house is increased.

For he shall take nothing away when he dieth, neither shall his pompe descende after him.

For while he liued, he reioyced himselfe: and men will prayse thee, when thou makest much of thy selfe.

To him that excelleth. A Psalme of Dauid to giue instruction. When Doeg the Edomite came and shewed Saul, and saide to him, Dauid is come to the house of Abimelech. Why boastest thou thy selfe in thy wickednesse, O man of power? the louing kindenesse of God indureth dayly.

Thy tongue imagineth mischiefe, and is like a sharpe rasor, that cutteth deceitfully.

Thou doest loue euill more then good, and lies more then to speake the trueth. Selah.

Thou louest all wordes that may destroye, O deceitfull tongue!

So shall God destroy thee for euer: he shall take thee and plucke thee out of thy tabernacle, and roote thee out of ye land of the liuing. Selah.

The righteous also shall see it, and feare, and shall laugh at him, saying,

Beholde the man that tooke not God for his strength, but trusted vnto the multitude of his riches, and put his strength in his malice.

For I feared at the foolish, when I sawe the prosperitie of the wicked.

For there are no bandes in their death, but they are lustie and strong.

They are not in trouble as other men, neither are they plagued with other men.

Therefore pride is as a chayne vnto them, and crueltie couereth them as a garment.