Proverbs 21:20
Wise people have many valuable things in their houses, but foolish people quickly spend/waste all their money.
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Job 20:15Wicked people will not continue to keep the money they have accumulated, like people do not keep the food that they vomit. God takes their wealth from them.
Psalms 23:5You prepare a great feast for me, in a place where my enemies can see me. You joyfully receive me, as people joyfully receive the guests they have invited by pouring olive oil over their heads. You have given me very many blessings!
Proverbs 10:22Yahweh blesses some people by enabling them to become rich, and working hard will not make them to become richer (OR, and he will not also cause them to become sad).
Ecclesiastes 5:19If people are rich and have a lot of possessions, and are able to ◄enjoy/be happy with► the things that they have and to enjoy their work, those things are also gifts from God.
Ecclesiastes 10:19Eating food and drinking wine causes us to laugh and be happy, but we are able to enjoy those things only if we have money to buy them.
Matthew 6:19“Do not selfishly accumulate large quantities of money and material goods for yourselves on this earth, because the earth is where everything is destroyed. For example, on earth termites ruin things, and things rust, and thieves enter buildings and steal things.
Matthew Henry on Proverbs 21:20
19 It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry woman. Note, 1. Unbridled passions embitter and spoil the comfort of all relations. A peevish angry wife makes her husband's life uneasy, to whom she should be a comfort and a meet help. Those cannot dwell in peace and happiness that cannot dwell in peace and love. Even those that are one flesh, if they be not withal one spirit, have no joy of their union. 2. It is better to have no company than bad company. The wife of thy covenant… Read the whole commentary →