Job 27:16

Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, “I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you.”

though I am decaying like a rotten thing, like a garment that is moth-eaten.

So is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.”

He ran on ahead, and climbed up into a sycamore tree to see him, for he was going to pass that way.

The border turned to Ramah, to the fortified city of Tyre; and the border turned to Hosah. It ended at the sea by the region of Achzib;

They came to Ophir, and fetched from there gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought it to king Solomon.

I will make people more rare than fine gold, even a person than the pure gold of Ophir.

Behold, the Lord Yahweh will help me! Who is he who will condemn me? Behold, they will all grow old like a garment. The moths will eat them up.

Tyre built herself a stronghold, and heaped up silver like the dust, and fine gold like the mire of the streets.

Charge those who are rich in this present world that they not be arrogant, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on the living God, who richly provides us with everything to enjoy;

He took up his parable, and said, “From Aram has Balak brought me, the king of Moab from the mountains of the East. Come, curse Jacob for me. Come, defy Israel.

and came to the stronghold of Tyre, and to all the cities of the Hivites, and of the Canaanites; and they went out to the south of Judah, at Beersheba.

and over the olive trees and the sycamore trees that were in the lowland was Baal Hanan the Gederite; and over the cellars of oil was Joash;

How much better it is to get wisdom than gold! Yes, to get understanding is to be chosen rather than silver.

He who loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he who loves abundance, with increase: this also is vanity.

Woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees, and to the writers who write oppressive decrees;

Because of Yahweh’s wrath she won’t be inhabited, but she will be wholly desolate. Everyone who goes by Babylon will be astonished, and hiss at all her plagues.

When your wares went out of the seas, you filled many peoples. You enriched the kings of the earth with the multitude of your riches and of your merchandise.

In that day they will take up a parable against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, saying, ‘We are utterly ruined! My people’s possession is divided up. Indeed he takes it from me and assigns our fields to traitors!’ ”

I tell you, make for yourselves friends by means of unrighteous mammon, so that when you fail, they may receive you into the eternal tents.

Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are on the earth.

Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All these were the sons of Joktan.

Notwithstanding they didn’t listen to Moses, but some of them left of it until the morning, so it bred worms and became foul; and Moses was angry with them.

Therefore those who speak in proverbs say, “Come to Heshbon. Let the city of Sihon be built and established;

He took up his parable, and said, “Rise up, Balak, and hear! Listen to me, you son of Zippor.

He shall not multiply wives to himself, that his heart not turn away. He shall not greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.

Israel has sinned. Yes, they have even transgressed my covenant which I commanded them. Yes, they have even taken some of the devoted things, and have also stolen, and also deceived. They have even put it among their own stuff.

Samson said to them, “Let me tell you a riddle now. If you can tell me the answer within the seven days of the feast, and find it out, then I will give you thirty linen garments and thirty changes of clothing;

All king Solomon’s drinking vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the House of the Forest of Lebanon were of pure gold. None were of silver, because it was considered of little value in the days of Solomon.

The king made silver as common as stones in Jerusalem, and cedars as common as the sycamore trees that are in the lowland.

Jehoshaphat made ships of Tarshish to go to Ophir for gold, but they didn’t go; for the ships wrecked at Ezion Geber.

When he came to the hill, he took them from their hand, and stored them in the house. Then he let the men go, and they departed.

Ophir, Havilah, and Jobab. All these were the sons of Joktan.

Moreover the bronze altar that Bezalel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, had made was there before Yahweh’s tabernacle; and Solomon and the assembly were seeking counsel there.

The servants of Huram and the servants of Solomon, who brought gold from Ophir, also brought algum trees and precious stones.

The king made silver as common in Jerusalem as stones, and he made cedars to be as abundant as the sycamore trees that are in the lowland.

Therefore Yahweh established the kingdom in his hand. All Judah brought tribute to Jehoshaphat, and he had riches and honor in abundance.

or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver:

You say, ‘God lays up his iniquity for his children.’ Let him recompense it to himself, that he may know it.

Lay your treasure in the dust, the gold of Ophir among the stones of the brooks.

In the dark they dig through houses. They shut themselves up in the daytime. They don’t know the light.

“If I have made gold my hope, and have said to the fine gold, ‘You are my confidence;’

If I have rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because my hand had gotten much;

“Surely every man walks like a shadow. Surely they busy themselves in vain. He heaps up, and doesn’t know who shall gather.

When you rebuke and correct man for iniquity, you consume his wealth like a moth. Surely every man is but a breath.”

Kings’ daughters are among your honorable women. At your right hand the queen stands in gold of Ophir.

Don’t trust in oppression. Don’t become vain in robbery. If riches increase, don’t set your heart on them.

Riches don’t profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death.

An inheritance quickly gained at the beginning, won’t be blessed in the end.

Whoever oppresses the poor for his own increase and whoever gives to the rich, both come to poverty.

Don’t weary yourself to be rich. In your wisdom, show restraint.

Why do you set your eyes on that which is not? For it certainly sprouts wings like an eagle and flies in the sky.

For to the man who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy; but to the sinner he gives travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him who pleases God. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.

The labor of fools wearies every one of them; for he doesn’t know how to go to the city.

Who has planned this against Tyre, the giver of crowns, whose merchants are princes, whose traders are the honorable of the earth?

For the moth will eat them up like a garment, and the worm will eat them like wool; but my righteousness will be forever, and my salvation to all generations.”

As the partridge that sits on eggs which she has not laid, so is he who gets riches, and not by right. In the middle of his days, they will leave him. At his end, he will be a fool.

They will destroy the walls of Tyre, and break down her towers. I will also scrape her dust from her, and make her a bare rock.

by your great wisdom and by your trading you have increased your riches, and your heart is lifted up because of your riches—”

The strong among the mighty will speak to him out of the middle of Sheol with those who help him. They have gone down. The uncircumcised lie still, slain by the sword.

Therefore I am to Ephraim like a moth, and to the house of Judah like rottenness.

He takes up all of them with the hook. He catches them in his net, and gathers them in his dragnet. Therefore he rejoices and is glad.

Won’t all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, ‘Woe to him who increases that which is not his, and who enriches himself by extortion! How long?’

Behold, isn’t it of Yahweh of Armies that the peoples labor for the fire, and the nations weary themselves for vanity?

Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to deliver them in the day of Yahweh’s wrath, but the whole land will be devoured by the fire of his jealousy; for he will make an end, yes, a terrible end, of all those who dwell in the land.

“Don’t lay up treasures for yourselves on the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal;

He spoke to them many things in parables, saying, “Behold, a farmer went out to sow.

Jesus said to him, “If you want to be perfect, go, sell what you have, and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.”

Sell that which you have, and give gifts to the needy. Make for yourselves purses which don’t grow old, a treasure in the heavens that doesn’t fail, where no thief approaches, neither moth destroys.

But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what hour the thief was coming, he would have watched, and not allowed his house to be broken into.

When Jesus heard these things, he said to him, “You still lack one thing. Sell all that you have, and distribute it to the poor. Then you will have treasure in heaven; then come, follow me.”

Jesus, seeing that he became very sad, said, “How hard it is for those who have riches to enter into God’s Kingdom!

Don’t work for the food which perishes, but for the food which remains to eternal life, which the Son of Man will give to you. For God the Father has sealed him.”

For if a man with a gold ring, in fine clothing, comes into your synagogue, and a poor man in filthy clothing also comes in,

Your riches are corrupted and your garments are moth-eaten.

to an incorruptible and undefiled inheritance that doesn’t fade away, reserved in Heaven for you,