Psalms 49:10

Everyone sees that wise and foolish alike die, leaving their wealth to others. Death spares no one.

Cross-references · 19

• 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.
• Luke 12:20But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life will be required of you. Then who will own what you have accumulated?’
• Eccl 5:13–16There is a grievous evil I have seen under the sun: wealth hoarded to the harm of its owner,
• 1 Tim 6:6–10Of course, godliness with contentment is great gain.
• Heb 9:27Just as man is appointed to die once, and after that to face judgment,
• Jer 10:8But they are altogether senseless and foolish, instructed by worthless idols made of wood!
• Prov 30:2Surely I am the most ignorant of men, and I lack the understanding of a man.
• Ps 73:22I was senseless and ignorant; I was a brute beast before You.
• Ps 49:17For when he dies, he will carry nothing away; his abundance will not follow him down.
• Prov 11:4Riches are worthless in the day of wrath, but righteousness brings deliverance from death.
• Eccl 2:26To the man who is pleasing in His sight, He gives wisdom and knowledge and joy, but to the sinner He assigns the task of gathering and accumulating that which he will hand over to one who pleases God. This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind.
• Ps 94:8Take notice, O senseless among the people! O fools, when will you be wise?
• Ps 17:14from such men, O LORD, by Your hand—from men of the world whose portion is in this life. May You fill the bellies of Your treasured ones and satisfy their sons, so they leave their abundance to their children.
• Prov 12:1Whoever loves discipline loves knowledge, but he who hates correction is stupid.
• Ps 92:6–7A senseless man does not know, and a fool does not understand,
• Eccl 9:1–2So I took all this to heart and concluded that the righteous and the wise, as well as their deeds, are in God’s hands. Man does not know what lies ahead, whether love or hate.
• Eccl 2:16–21For there is no lasting remembrance of the wise, just as with the fool, seeing that both will be forgotten in the days to come. Alas, the wise man will die just like the fool!
• Rom 5:12–14Therefore, just as sin entered the world through one man, and death through sin, so also death was passed on to all men, because all sinned.
• 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.”

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