Luke 12:20

God calls the man a fool, for that very night his soul is required of him, and his hoarded goods will pass to others. Death exposes the folly of living for possessions.

Cross-references · 28

• Job 27:8For what is the hope of the godless when he is cut off, when God takes away his life?
• Jer 17:11Like a partridge hatching eggs it did not lay is the man who makes a fortune unjustly. In the middle of his days his riches will desert him, and in the end he will be the fool.”
• 1 Tim 6:7For we brought nothing into the world, so we cannot carry anything out of it.
• Ps 39:6Surely every man goes about like a phantom; surely he bustles in vain; he heaps up riches not knowing who will haul them away.
• Jas 4:14You do not even know what will happen tomorrow! What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.
• Ps 49:17–19For when he dies, he will carry nothing away; his abundance will not follow him down.
• Job 27:16–17Though he heaps up silver like dust and piles up a wardrobe like clay,
• Luke 16:22–23One day the beggar died and was carried by the angels to Abraham’s side. And the rich man also died and was buried.
• Ps 52:5–7Surely God will bring you down to everlasting ruin; He will snatch you up and tear you away from your tent; He will uproot you from the land of the living. Selah
• 1 Th 5:3While people are saying, “Peace and security,” destruction will come upon them suddenly, like labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.
• Matt 24:48–51But suppose that servant is wicked and says in his heart, ‘My master will be away a long time.’
• Prov 28:8He who increases his wealth by interest and usury lays it up for one who is kind to the poor.
• Ps 73:19How suddenly they are laid waste, completely swept away by terrors!
• Luke 11:40You fools! Did not the One who made the outside make the inside as well?
• Prov 11:4Riches are worthless in the day of wrath, but righteousness brings deliverance from death.
• Nah 1:10For they will be entangled as with thorns and consumed like the drink of a drunkard—like stubble that is fully dry.
• Dan 5:1–6Later, King Belshazzar held a great feast for a thousand of his nobles, and he drank wine with them.
• 2 Sam 13:28–29Now Absalom had ordered his young men, “Watch Amnon until his heart is merry with wine, and when I order you to strike Amnon down, you are to kill him. Do not be afraid. Have I not commanded you? Be courageous and valiant!”
• Eccl 2:18–22I hated all for which I had toiled under the sun, because I must leave it to the man who comes after me.
• Dan 5:25–30Now this is the inscription that was written: MENE, MENE, TEKEL, PARSIN.
• Ps 78:30Yet before they had filled their desire, with the food still in their mouths,
• Job 20:20–23Because his appetite is never satisfied, he cannot escape with his treasure.
• Esth 8:1–2That same day King Xerxes awarded Queen Esther the estate of Haman, the enemy of the Jews. And Mordecai entered the king’s presence because Esther had revealed his relation to her.
• Esth 5:11Haman recounted to them his glorious wealth, his many sons, and all the ways the king had honored and promoted him over the other officials and servants.
• 1 Kgs 16:9–10However, while Elah was in Tirzah getting drunk in the house of Arza the steward of his household there, Elah’s servant Zimri, the commander of half his chariots, conspired against him.
• Eccl 5:14–16or wealth lost in a failed venture, so when that man has a son there is nothing to pass on.
• 1 Sam 25:36–38When Abigail returned to Nabal, there he was in the house, holding a feast fit for a king, in high spirits and very drunk. So she told him nothing until morning light.
• Exod 16:9–10Then Moses said to Aaron, “Tell the whole congregation of Israel, ‘Come before the LORD, for He has heard your grumbling.’”

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