Luke 12:20

For my days consume away like smoke. My bones are burned as a torch.

When you pass through the waters, I will be with you, and through the rivers, they will not overflow you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be burned, and flame will not scorch you.

He said, “Naked I came out of my mother’s womb, and naked will I return there. Yahweh gave, and Yahweh has taken away. Blessed be Yahweh’s name.”

For what will it profit a man, if he gains the whole world, and forfeits his life? Or what will a man give in exchange for his life?

Behold, you have made my days hand widths. My lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely every man stands as a breath.”

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.

For what does it profit a man if he gains the whole world, and loses or forfeits his own self?

For, “All flesh is like grass, and all of man’s glory like the flower in the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls;

I am eighty years old, today. Can I discern between good and bad? Can your servant taste what I eat or what I drink? Can I hear the voice of singing men and singing women any more? Why then should your servant be a burden to my lord the king?

the ten sons of Haman the son of Hammedatha, the Jews’ enemy, but they didn’t lay their hand on the plunder.

Oh remember that my life is a breath. My eye will no more see good.

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

He remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passes away, and doesn’t come again.

A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children, but the wealth of the sinner is stored for the righteous.

If your right eye causes you to stumble, pluck it out and throw it away from you. For it is more profitable for you that one of your members should perish, than for your whole body to be cast into Gehenna.

“But Abraham said, ‘Son, remember that you, in your lifetime, received your good things, and Lazarus, in the same way, bad things. But here he is now comforted, and you are in anguish.

Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you; not as the world gives, I give to you. Don’t let your heart be troubled, neither let it be fearful.

So that with good courage we say, “The Lord is my helper. I will not fear. What can man do to me?”

Yahweh said to Noah, “Come with all of your household into the ship, for I have seen your righteousness before me in this generation.

Take no interest from him or profit; but fear your God, that your brother may live among you.

Moses was one hundred twenty years old when he died. His eye was not dim, nor his strength gone.

Now king David was old and advanced in years; and they covered him with clothes, but he couldn’t keep warm.

But man dies, and is laid low. Yes, man gives up the spirit, and where is he?

A sound of terrors is in his ears. In prosperity the destroyer will come on him.

For what is the hope of the godless, when he is cut off, when God takes away his life?

Let destruction come on him unawares. Let his net that he has hidden catch himself. Let him fall into that destruction.

Therefore we won’t be afraid, though the earth changes, though the mountains are shaken into the heart of the seas;

Treasures of wickedness profit nothing, but righteousness delivers from death.

for a righteous man falls seven times and rises up again; but the wicked are overthrown by calamity.

The wicked flee when no one pursues; but the righteous are as bold as a lion.

The wise man’s eyes are in his head, and the fool walks in darkness—and yet I perceived that one event happens to them all.

Remember also your Creator in the days of your youth, before the evil days come, and the years draw near, when you will say, “I have no pleasure in them;”

Behold, they are like stubble. The fire will burn them. They won’t deliver themselves from the power of the flame. It won’t be a coal to warm at or a fire to sit by.

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.

Again, the devil took him to an exceedingly high mountain, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world, and their glory.

But all these things are the beginning of birth pains.

Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The years of my pilgrimage are one hundred thirty years. The days of the years of my life have been few and evil. They have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.”

“If you lend money to any of my people with you who is poor, you shall not be to him as a creditor. You shall not charge him interest.

After these things King Ahasuerus promoted Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, and advanced him, and set his seat above all the princes who were with him.

Satan answered Yahweh, and said, “Skin for skin. Yes, all that a man has he will give for his life.

They are exalted; yet a little while, and they are gone. Yes, they are brought low, they are taken out of the way as all others, and are cut off as the tops of the ears of grain.

Would your wealth sustain you in distress, or all the might of your strength?

For he sees that wise men die; likewise the fool and the senseless perish, and leave their wealth to others.

This is the destiny of those who are foolish, and of those who approve their sayings.

The days of our years are seventy, or even by reason of strength eighty years; yet their pride is but labor and sorrow, for it passes quickly, and we fly away.

A senseless man doesn’t know, neither does a fool understand this:

Consider, you senseless among the people; you fools, when will you be wise?

He will not be afraid of evil news. His heart is steadfast, trusting in Yahweh.

Wealth gained dishonestly dwindles away, but he who gathers by hand makes it grow.

He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for his Maker, but he who is kind to the needy honors him.

He who is greedy for gain troubles his own house, but he who hates bribes will live.

Better is a little with righteousness, than great revenues with injustice.

for riches are not forever, nor does the crown endure to all generations.

A faithful man is rich with blessings; but one who is eager to be rich will not go unpunished.

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 inhabitants of this coast land will say in that day, ‘Behold, this is our expectation, where we fled for help to be delivered from the king of Assyria. And we, how will we escape?’ ”

But the multitude of your foes will be like fine dust, and the multitude of the ruthless ones like chaff that blows away. Yes, it will be in an instant, suddenly.

My dwelling is removed, and is carried away from me like a shepherd’s tent. I have rolled up my life like a weaver. He will cut me off from the loom. From day even to night you will make an end of me.

But these two things will come to you in a moment in one day, the loss of children and widowhood. They will come on you in their full measure, in the multitude of your sorceries, and the great abundance of your enchantments.

Therefore disaster will come on you. You won’t know when it dawns. Mischief will fall on you. You won’t be able to put it away. Desolation will come on you suddenly, which you don’t understand.

Ask now, and see whether a man travails with child. Why do I see every man with his hands on his waist, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned pale?

They will cast their silver in the streets, and their gold will be as an unclean thing. Their silver and their gold won’t be able to deliver them in the day of Yahweh’s wrath. They won’t satisfy their souls or fill their bellies; because it has been the stumbling block of their iniquity.

While the word was in the king’s mouth, a voice came from the sky, saying, “O king Nebuchadnezzar, to you it is spoken: ‘The kingdom has departed from you.

In the same hour, the fingers of a man’s hand came out and wrote near the lamp stand on the plaster of the wall of the king’s palace. The king saw the part of the hand that wrote.

The best of them is like a brier. The most upright is worse than a thorn hedge. The day of your watchmen, even your visitation, has come; now is the time of their confusion.

and hope doesn’t disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us.

and those who use the world, as not using it to the fullest. For the mode of this world passes away.

You foolish one, that which you yourself sow is not made alive unless it dies.

As her soul was departing (for she died), she named him Benoni, but his father named him Benjamin.

On that day, King Ahasuerus gave the house of Haman, the Jews’ enemy, to Esther the queen. Mordecai came before the king; for Esther had told what he was to her.

The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt. They have done abominable deeds. There is no one who does good.

You shall not be afraid of the terror by night, nor of the arrow that flies by day,

but one thing is needed. Mary has chosen the good part, which will not be taken away from her.”

You foolish ones, didn’t he who made the outside make the inside also?

Haman recounted to them the glory of his riches, the multitude of his children, all the things in which the king had promoted him, and how he had advanced him above the princes and servants of the king.

Isn’t their tent cord plucked up within them? They die, and that without wisdom.’

Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months is with you, and you have appointed his bounds that he can’t pass;

Drought and heat consume the snow waters, so does Sheol those who have sinned.

In a moment they die, even at midnight. The people are shaken and pass away. The mighty are taken away without a hand.

Don’t desire the night, when people are cut off in their place.

for when he dies he will carry nothing away. His glory won’t descend after him.

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

They didn’t turn from their cravings. Their food was yet in their mouths,

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

He who trusts in his riches will fall, but the righteous shall flourish as the green leaf.

He who increases his wealth by excessive interest gathers it for one who has pity on the poor.

I hated all my labor in which I labored under the sun, because I must leave it to the man who comes after me.

There is one who is alone, and he has neither son nor brother. There is no end to all of his labor, neither are his eyes satisfied with wealth. “For whom then, do I labor and deprive my soul of enjoyment?” This also is vanity. Yes, it is a miserable business.

As he came out of his mother’s womb, naked shall he go again as he came, and shall take nothing for his labor, which he may carry away in his hand.

For man also doesn’t know his time. As the fish that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare, even so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falls suddenly on them.

When he stands up, his kingdom will be broken, and will be divided toward the four winds of the sky, but not to his posterity, nor according to his dominion with which he ruled; for his kingdom will be plucked up, even for others besides these.

“But out of a shoot from her roots one will stand up in his place, who will come to the army, and will enter into the fortress of the king of the north, and will deal against them, and will prevail.

For entangled like thorns, and drunken as with their drink, they are consumed utterly like dry stubble.

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?’

But at midnight there was a cry, ‘Behold! The bridegroom is coming! Come out to meet him!’

Woe to you, you who are full now, for you will be hungry. Woe to you who laugh now, for you will mourn and weep.

For when they are saying, “Peace and safety,” then sudden destruction will come on them, like birth pains on a pregnant woman. Then they will in no way escape.

For we brought nothing into the world, and we certainly can’t carry anything out.

Whereas you don’t know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.

The fruits which your soul lusted after have been lost to you. All things that were dainty and sumptuous have perished from you, and you will find them no more at all.