Bible Verses About Riches

Wealth addeth many friends, And the poor from his neighbour is separated.

The making of treasures by a lying tongue, Is a vanity driven away of those seeking death.

The rich over the poor ruleth, And a servant is the borrower to the lender.

He is oppressing the poor to multiply to him, He is giving to the rich--only to want.

Labour not to make wealth, From thine own understanding cease, Dost thou cause thine eyes to fly upon it? Then it is not.

For wealth maketh to itself wings, As an eagle it flieth to the heavens.

Know well the face of thy flock, Set thy heart to the droves,

For riches are not to the age, Nor a crown to generation and generation.

Whoso is multiplying his wealth by biting and usury, For one favouring the poor doth gather it.

A rich man is wise in his own eyes, And the intelligent poor searcheth him.

A stedfast man hath multiplied blessings, And whoso is hasting to be rich is not acquitted.

Troubled for wealth is the man with an evil eye, And he knoweth not that want doth meet him.

Vanity and a lying word put far from me, Poverty or wealth give not to me, Cause me to eat the bread of my portion,

Lest I become satiated, and have denied, And have said, `Who is Jehovah?' And lest I be poor, and have stolen, And have laid hold of the name of my God.

For to a man who is good before Him, He hath given wisdom, and knowledge, and joy; and to a sinner He hath given travail, to gather and to heap up, to give to the good before God. Even this is vanity and vexation of spirit.

There is one, and there is not a second; even son or brother he hath not, and there is no end to all his labour! His eye also is not satisfied with riches, and he saith not , `For whom am I labouring and bereaving my soul of good?' This also is vanity, it is a sad travail.

And the abundance of a land is for all. A king for a field is served.

Whoso is loving silver is not satisfied with silver, nor he who is in love with stores with increase. Even this is vanity.

In the multiplying of good have its consumers been multiplied, and what benefit is to its possessor except the sight of his eyes?

Sweet is the sleep of the labourer whether he eat little or much; and the sufficiency of the wealthy is not suffering him to sleep.

There is a painful evil I have seen under the sun: wealth kept for its possessor, for his evil.

And that wealth hath been lost in an evil business, and he hath begotten a son and there is nothing in his hand!

As he came out from the belly of his mother, naked he turneth back to go as he came, and he taketh not away anything of his labour, that doth go in his hand.

And this also is a painful evil, just as he came, so he goeth, and what advantage is to him who laboureth for wind?

Also all his days in darkness he consumeth, and sadness, and wrath, and sickness abound.