Quotes About Riches

With me are riches and honor, enduring wealth and righteousness.

My fruit is better than gold, pure gold, and my harvest surpasses choice silver.

Riches are worthless in the day of wrath, but righteousness brings deliverance from death.

He who trusts in his riches will fall, but the righteous will thrive like foliage.

One pretends to be rich, but has nothing; another pretends to be poor, yet has great wealth.

Riches may ransom a manís life, but a poor man hears no threat.

A rich manís wealth is his fortified city; it is like a high wall in his imagination.

Wealth attracts many friends, but a poor man is deserted by his friend.

There is an abundance of gold and rubies, but lips of knowledge are a rare treasure.

He who loves pleasure will become poor; the one who loves wine and oil will never be rich.

A good name is more desirable than great riches; favor is better than silver and gold.

Oppressing the poor to enrich oneself or giving gifts to the rich will surely lead to poverty.

The sleep of the worker is sweet, whether he eats little or much, but the abundance of the rich man permits him no sleep.

Furthermore, God has given riches and wealth to every man, and He has enabled him to enjoy them, to accept his lot, and to rejoice in his labor. This is a gift from God.

God gives a man riches, wealth, and honor, so that he lacks nothing his heart desires; but God does not allow him to enjoy them. Instead, a stranger will enjoy them. This is futile and a grievous affliction.

Folly is appointed to great heights, but the rich sit in lowly positions.

I will give you the treasures of darkness and the riches hidden in secret places, so that you may know that I am the LORD, the God of Israel, who calls you by name.

Then you will look and be radiant, and your heart will tremble and swell with joy, because the riches of the sea will be brought to you, and the wealth of the nations will come to you.

But you will be called the priests of the LORD; they will speak of you as ministers of our God; you will feed on the wealth of nations, and you will boast in their riches.

This is what the LORD says: “Let not the wise man boast in his wisdom, nor the strong man in his strength, nor the wealthy man in his riches.

Why do you boast of your valleys—your valleys so fruitful, O faithless daughter? You trust in your riches and say, ëWho can come against me?í

And in their place, he will honor a god of fortresses—a god his fathers did not know—with gold, silver, precious stones, and riches.

He will gain control of the treasures of gold and silver and over all the riches of Egypt, and the Libyans and Cushites will also submit to him.

And Ephraim boasts: “How rich I have become! I have found wealth for myself. In all my labors, they can find in me no iniquity that is sinful.”