Psalms 49:10

For we must all be revealed before the judgment seat of Christ that each one may receive the things in the body according to what he has done, whether good or bad.

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

For God will bring every work into judgment, with every hidden thing, whether it is good, or whether it is evil.

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?

and say, “How I have hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;

But these speak evil of whatever things they don’t know. They are destroyed in these things that they understand naturally, like the creatures without reason.

Eleazar Aaron’s son took one of the daughters of Putiel as his wife; and she bore him Phinehas. These are the heads of the fathers’ houses of the Levites according to their families.

Why are we counted as animals, which have become unclean in your sight?

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.

There is no memory of the former; neither shall there be any memory of the latter that are to come, among those that shall come after.

Until now, you have asked nothing in my name. Ask, and you will receive, that your joy may be made full.

to execute judgment on all, and to convict all the ungodly of all their works of ungodliness which they have done in an ungodly way, and of all the hard things which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.”

You will eat bread by the sweat of your face until you return to the ground, for you were taken out of it. For you are dust, and you shall return to dust.”

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

For we must die, and are like water spilled on the ground, which can’t be gathered up again; neither does God take away life, but devises means, that he who is banished not be an outcast from him.

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

But there is a spirit in man, and the Spirit of the Almighty gives them understanding.

since you hate instruction, and throw my words behind you?

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

There is stern discipline for one who forsakes the way: whoever hates reproof shall die.

Wisdom is before the face of one who has understanding, but the eyes of a fool wander to the ends of the earth.

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

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.

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

a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;

All go to one place. All are from the dust, and all turn to dust again.

a man to whom God gives riches, wealth, and honor, so that he lacks nothing for his soul of all that he desires, yet God gives him no power to eat of it, but an alien eats it. This is vanity, and it is an evil disease.

Rejoice, young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth, and walk in the ways of your heart, and in the sight of your eyes; but know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.

and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

But you, Yahweh, know me. You see me, and test my heart toward you. Pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.

Those who regard lying vanities forsake their own mercy.

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.

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

“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.

because he has appointed a day in which he will judge the world in righteousness by the man whom he has ordained; of which he has given assurance to all men, in that he has raised him from the dead.”

desiring to be teachers of the law, though they understand neither what they say, nor about what they strongly affirm.

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

They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God. They have provoked me to anger with their vanities. I will move them to jealousy with those who are not a people. I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.

and Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, stood before it in those days), saying, “Shall I yet again go out to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother, or shall I cease?” Yahweh said, “Go up; for tomorrow I will deliver him into your hand.”

He will return no more to his house, neither will his place know him any more.

he may prepare it, but the just will put it on, and the innocent will divide the silver.

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

Who has put wisdom in the inward parts? Or who has given understanding to the mind?

But he passed away, and behold, he was not. Yes, I sought him, but he could not be found.

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

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

They don’t know, neither do they understand. They walk back and forth in darkness. All the foundations of the earth are shaken.

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 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.

Getting treasures by a lying tongue is a fleeting vapor for those who seek death.

Evil men don’t understand justice; but those who seek Yahweh understand it fully.

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

I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and behold, all is vanity and a chasing after wind.

I said in my heart, “As for the sons of men, God tests them, so that they may see that they themselves are like animals.

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.

There is a vanity which is done on the earth, that there are righteous men to whom it happens according to the work of the wicked. Again, there are wicked men to whom it happens according to the work of the righteous. I said that this also is vanity.

For the living know that they will die, but the dead don’t know anything, neither do they have any more a reward; for their memory is forgotten.

Every man has become brutish and without knowledge. Every goldsmith is disappointed by his engraved image; for his molten image is falsehood, and there is no breath in them.

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.

The merchants among the peoples hiss at you. You have become a terror, and you will be no more.” ’ ”

Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver, and the gold were broken in pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshing floors. The wind carried them away, so that no place was found for them. The stone that struck the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth.

“What value does the engraved image have, that its maker has engraved it; the molten image, even the teacher of lies, that he who fashions its form trusts in it, to make mute idols?

For what does it profit a man, to gain the whole world, and forfeit his life?

“But God said to him, ‘You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared—whose will they be?’

“His lord commended the dishonest manager because he had done wisely, for the children of this world are, in their own generation, wiser than the children of the light.

Therefore judge nothing before the time, until the Lord comes, who will both bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and reveal the counsels of the hearts. Then each man will get his praise from God.

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

and with all deception of wickedness for those who are being lost, because they didn’t receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

I command you therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who will judge the living and the dead at his appearing and his Kingdom:

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

“Surely I am the most ignorant man, and don’t have a man’s understanding.

Eleazar the son of Aaron died. They buried him in the hill of Phinehas his son, which was given him in the hill country of Ephraim.

from men by your hand, Yahweh, from men of the world, whose portion is in this life. You fill the belly of your cherished ones. Your sons have plenty, and they store up wealth for their children.

For yet a little while, and the wicked will be no more. Yes, though you look for his place, he isn’t there.

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

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

Whoever loves correction loves knowledge, but he who hates reproof is stupid.

For of the wise man, even as of the fool, there is no memory forever, since in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. Indeed, the wise man must die just like the fool!

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.

But they are together brutish and foolish, instructed by idols! It is just wood.

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.

But I tell you that everyone who is angry with his brother without a cause will be in danger of the judgment. Whoever says to his brother, ‘Raca!’ will be in danger of the council. Whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be in danger of the fire of Gehenna.

Inasmuch as it is appointed for men to die once, and after this, judgment,

But these, as unreasoning creatures, born natural animals to be taken and destroyed, speaking evil in matters about which they are ignorant, will in their destroying surely be destroyed,