Ps.39.6

Psalm 39:6

KJV

Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.

I Will Watch My Ways

For the choirmaster. For Jeduthun. A Psalm of David.

Cross References

Luke 12:20

KJV Jesus

But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided?

The Parable of the Rich Fool

1 Corinthians 7:31

KJV

And they that use this world, as not abusing it: for the fashion of this world passeth away.

The Unmarried and Widowed

James 1:10

KJV

But the rich, in that he is made low: because as the flower of the grass he shall pass away.

Rejoicing in Trials

James 1:11

KJV

For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.

Rejoicing in Trials

1 Peter 1:24

KJV GOD

For all flesh is as grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower thereof falleth away:

The Enduring Word

Psalm 49:10

KJV

For he seeth that wise men die, likewise the fool and the brutish person perish, and leave their wealth to others.

The Evanescence of Wealth

For the choirmaster. A Psalm of the sons of Korah.

Psalm 127:2

KJV

It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved sleep.

Children Are a Heritage from the LORD

A song of ascents. Of Solomon.

Ecclesiastes 1:2

KJV

Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.

Everything Is Futile

Ecclesiastes 2:18

KJV

¶ Yea, I hated all my labour which I had taken under the sun: because I should leave it unto the man that shall be after me.

The Futility of Work

Ecclesiastes 2:26

KJV

For God giveth to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he giveth travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him that is good before God. This also is vanity and vexation of spirit.

The Futility of Work

Ecclesiastes 5:14

KJV

But those riches perish by evil travail: and he begetteth a son, and there is nothing in his hand.

The Futility of Wealth

The Folly of Riches

Ecclesiastes 5:17

KJV

All his days also he eateth in darkness, and he hath much sorrow and wrath with his sickness.