Psalms 39:6

People bustle about like shadows, amassing wealth they cannot keep. Earthly striving without God is ultimately in vain.

Cross-references · 24

• Luke 12:20–21“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?’
• Eccl 2:26For 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.
• Jas 4:14Whereas 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.
• 1 Cor 7:31and those who use the world, as not using it to the fullest. For the mode of this world passes away.
• Ps 127:2It is vain for you to rise up early, to stay up late, eating the bread of toil; for he gives sleep to his loved ones.
• Eccl 12:13This is the end of the matter. All has been heard. Fear God, and keep his commandments; for this is the whole duty of man.
• 1 Pet 5:7casting all your worries on him, because he cares for you.
• Eccl 5:14Those riches perish by misfortune, and if he has fathered a son, there is nothing in his hand.
• Eccl 4:7–8Then I returned and saw vanity under the sun.
• Luke 12:29Don’t seek what you will eat or what you will drink; neither be anxious.
• Job 27:16–17Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare clothing as the clay;
• Isa 55:2Why do you spend money for that which is not bread, and your labor for that which doesn’t satisfy? Listen diligently to me, and eat that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in richness.
• Eccl 2:17–21So I hated life, because the work that is worked under the sun was grievous to me; for all is vanity and a chasing after wind.
• Prov 13:22A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children, but the wealth of the sinner is stored for the righteous.
• Eccl 12:8“Vanity of vanities,” says the Preacher. “All is vanity!”
• Eccl 6:11–12For there are many words that create vanity. What does that profit man?
• Eccl 1:14I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and behold, all is vanity and a chasing after wind.
• Eccl 2:8I also gathered silver and gold for myself, and the treasure of kings and of the provinces. I got myself male and female singers, and the delights of the sons of men — musical instruments, and that of all sorts.
• Ps 49:10–11For he sees that wise men die; likewise the fool and the senseless perish, and leave their wealth to others.
• Luke 10:40–42But Martha was distracted with much serving, and she came up to him, and said, “Lord, don’t you care that my sister left me to serve alone? Ask her therefore to help me.”
• Prov 27:24for riches are not forever, nor does the crown endure to all generations.
• Jas 5:3Your gold and your silver are corroded, and their corrosion will be for a testimony against you, and will eat your flesh like fire. You have laid up your treasure in the last days.
• 1 Pet 1:24For, “All flesh is like grass, and all of man’s glory like the flower in the grass. The grass withers, and its flower falls;
• Prov 23:5Why do you set your eyes on that which is not? For it certainly sprouts wings like an eagle and flies in the sky.

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