Jeremiah 17:11
Like the partridge, getting eggs together but not producing young, is a man who gets wealth but not by right; before half his days are ended, it will go from him, and at his end he will be foolish.
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12A seat of glory, placed on high from the first, is our holy place.
Cross References
Job 20:21He had never enough for his desire; for this cause his well-being will quickly come to an end.
Proverbs 1:18And they are secretly waiting for their blood and making ready destruction for themselves.
Proverbs 15:27He whose desires are fixed on profit is a cause of trouble to his family; but he who has no desire for offerings will have life.
Proverbs 23:5Are your eyes lifted up to it? it is gone: for wealth takes to itself wings, like an eagle in flight up to heaven.
Proverbs 28:16The prince who has no sense is a cruel ruler; but he who has no desire to get profit for himself will have long life.
Proverbs 28:22He who is ever desiring wealth goes running after money, and does not see that need will come on him.
Matthew Henry on Jeremiah 17:6-12
True and False Confidence; Deceitfulness of the Heart; Unlawful Gains. ( b. c. 605.) 5 Thus saith the Lord ; Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord . 6 For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited. 7 Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord , and whose hope the Lord is. 8 For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters,… Read the whole commentary →