Bible Verses About The Rich

Their eyes bulge with fat. Their minds pass the limits of conceit.

They scoff and speak with malice. In arrogance, they threaten oppression.

They have set their mouth in the heavens. Their tongue walks through the earth.

Therefore their people return to them, and they drink up waters of abundance.

They say, “How does God know? Is there knowledge in the Most High?”

Behold, these are the wicked. Being always at ease, they increase in riches.

Surely in vain I have cleansed my heart, and washed my hands in innocence,

For all day long have I been plagued, and punished every morning.

If I had said, “I will speak thus”; behold, I would have betrayed the generation of your children.

When I tried to understand this, it was too painful for me;

Until I entered God’s sanctuary, and considered their latter end.

Surely you set them in slippery places. You throw them down to destruction.

How they are suddenly destroyed! They are completely swept away with terrors.

As a dream when one wakes up, so, Lord, when you awake, you will despise their fantasies.

For my soul was grieved. I was embittered in my heart.

I was so senseless and ignorant. I was a brute beast before you.

The poor person is shunned even by his own neighbor, but the rich person has many friends.

The rich man’s wealth is his strong city, like an unscalable wall in his own imagination.

The poor plead for mercy, but the rich answer harshly.

The rich man is wise in his own eyes; but the poor who has understanding sees through him.

There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun: wealth kept by its owner to his harm.

Those riches perish by misfortune, and if he has fathered a son, there is nothing in his hand.

Every man also to whom God has given riches and wealth, and has given him power to eat of it, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his labor—this is the gift of God.

For he shall not often reflect on the days of his life; because God occupies him with the joy of his heart.

“How can I pardon you? Your children have forsaken me, and sworn by what are no gods. When I had fed them to the full, they committed adultery, and assembled themselves in troops at the prostitutes’ houses.