Psalms 17:14

David contrasts worldly men whose reward is only in this life with his own hope in God. It matters because it warns against finding one's whole portion in earthly things.

Cross-references · 21

• Job 22:18Yet he filled their houses with good things, but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.
• John 17:14I have given them your word. The world hated them, because they are not of the world, even as I am not of the world.
• John 15:19If you were of the world, the world would love its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, therefore the world hates you.
• Ps 49:17–19for when he dies he will carry nothing away. His glory won’t descend after him.
• Luke 12:19–21I will tell my soul, “Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years. Take your ease, eat, drink, be merry.”’
• Luke 16:25“But Abraham said, ‘Son, remember that you, in your lifetime, received your good things, and Lazarus, in the same way, bad things. But now here he is comforted and you are in anguish.
• John 8:23He said to them, “You are from beneath. I am from above. You are of this world. I am not of this world.
• Luke 16:8“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.
• 1 Jn 4:4–5You are of God, little children, and have overcome them; because greater is he who is in you than he who is in the world.
• Ps 39:6“Surely every man walks like a shadow. Surely they busy themselves in vain. He heaps up, and doesn’t know who shall gather.
• Jas 5:5You have lived delicately on the earth, and taken your pleasure. You have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter.
• Job 21:21For what does he care for his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off?
• Job 12:6The tents of robbers prosper. Those who provoke God are secure, who carry their God in their hands.
• Ps 73:12Behold, these are the wicked. Being always at ease, they increase in riches.
• Ps 73:3–7For I was envious of the arrogant, when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
• Job 27:14–17If his children are multiplied, it is for the sword. His offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.
• Job 12:9Who doesn’t know that in all these, Yahweh’s hand has done this,
• Job 21:7–15“Why do the wicked live, become old, yes, and grow mighty in power?
• Luke 16:27–28“He said, ‘I ask you therefore, father, that you would send him to my father’s house;
• Prov 2:4If you seek her as silver, and search for her as for hidden treasures:
• Matt 13:44“Again, the Kingdom of Heaven is like a treasure hidden in the field, which a man found, and hid. In his joy, he goes and sells all that he has, and buys that field.

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