Riches

Torrey's New Topical Textbook

Topic from Torrey's New Topical Textbook (R. A. Torrey) — public domain.

• Proverbs 13:22 OT

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

• Psalms 73:12 OT

  Behold, these are the wicked. Being always at ease, they increase in riches.

• Job 21:13 OT

  They spend their days in prosperity. In an instant they go down to Sheol.

• Job 20:15 OT

  He has swallowed down riches, and he will vomit them up again. God will cast them out of his belly.

• Psalms 52:7 OT

  “Behold, this is the man who didn’t make God his strength, but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness.”

• Job 27:16 OT

  Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare clothing as the clay;

• Psalms 39:6 OT

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

• Ecclesiastes 2:26 OT

  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.

• Ecclesiastes 5:13 OT

  There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun: wealth kept by its owner to his harm.

• Psalms 49:6 OT

  Those who trust in their wealth, and boast in the multitude of their riches—

• Proverbs 13:7 OT

  There are some who pretend to be rich, yet have nothing. There are some who pretend to be poor, yet have great wealth.

• Ecclesiastes 5:11 OT

  When goods increase, those who eat them are increased; and what advantage is there to its owner, except to feast on them with his eyes?

• Proverbs 15:6 OT

  In the house of the righteous is much treasure, but the income of the wicked brings trouble.

• Psalms 49:10 OT

  For he sees that wise men die; likewise the fool and the senseless perish, and leave their wealth to others.

• Job 31:28 OT

  this also would be an iniquity to be punished by the judges; for I should have denied the God who is above.

• Ezekiel 28:4 OT

  by your wisdom and by your understanding you have gotten yourself riches, and have gotten gold and silver into your treasures;

• Ezekiel 28:8 OT

  They will bring you down to the pit. You will die the death of those who are slain in the heart of the seas.

• Job 31:25 OT

  If I have rejoiced because my wealth was great, and because my hand had gotten much;

• Proverbs 13:11 OT

  Wealth gained dishonestly dwindles away, but he who gathers by hand makes it grow.

• Proverbs 21:6 OT

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

• Jeremiah 17:11 OT

  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.

• Proverbs 22:16 OT

  Whoever oppresses the poor for his own increase and whoever gives to the rich, both come to poverty.

• Habakkuk 2:6-8 OT

  Won’t all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, ‘Woe to him who increases that which is not his, and who enriches himself by extortion! How long?’ Won’t your debtors rise up suddenly, and wake up…

• Micah 2:2 OT

  They covet fields, and seize them; and houses, and take them away: and they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.