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But God said unto him, [Thou] fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided?

But {G1161} God {G2316} said {G2036} unto him {G846}, Thou fool {G878}, this {G5026} night {G3571} thy {G4675} soul {G5590} shall be required {G523} of {G575} thee {G4675}: then {G1161} whose {G5101} shall those things be {G2071}, which {G3739} thou hast provided {G2090}?

But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night you will die! And the things you prepared — whose will they be?’

But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life will be required of you. Then who will own what you have accumulated?’

But God said unto him, Thou foolish one, this night is thy soul required of thee; and the things which thou hast prepared, whose shall they be?

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Cross-References

  • Job 27:8 (15 votes)

    For what [is] the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God taketh away his soul?

  • Jeremiah 17:11 (15 votes)

    [As] the partridge sitteth [on eggs], and hatcheth [them] not; [so] he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool.

  • 1 Timothy 6:7 (12 votes)

    For we brought nothing into [this] world, [and it is] certain we can carry nothing out.

  • Psalms 39:6 (11 votes)

    Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up [riches], and knoweth not who shall gather them.

  • James 4:14 (9 votes)

    Whereas ye know not what [shall be] on the morrow. For what [is] your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.

  • Job 27:16 (7 votes)

    Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare raiment as the clay;

  • Job 27:17 (7 votes)

    He may prepare [it], but the just shall put [it] on, and the innocent shall divide the silver.