Like a partridge hatching eggs it did not lay is the man who makes a fortune unjustly. In the middle of his days his riches will desert him, and in the end he will be the fool." Cross References Luke 12:20 But God said to him, 'You fool! This very night your life will be required of you. Then who will own what you have accumulated?' Psalm 49:13 This is the fate of the self-confident and their followers who endorse their sayings. Selah Jeremiah 6:13 "For from the least of them to the greatest, all are greedy for gain; from prophet to priest, all practice deceit. Jeremiah 8:10 Therefore I will give their wives to other men and their fields to new owners. For from the least of them to the greatest, all are greedy for gain; from prophet to priest, all practice deceit. Jeremiah 22:13 "Woe to him who builds his palace by unrighteousness, and his upper rooms without justice, who makes his countrymen serve without pay, and fails to pay their wages, Jeremiah 22:17 "But your eyes and heart are set on nothing except your own dishonest gain, on shedding innocent blood, on practicing extortion and oppression." Treasury of Scripture As the partridge sits on eggs, and hatches them not; so he that gets riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the middle of his days, and at his end shall be a fool. sitteth. Jeremiah 5:27,28 Jeremiah 22:13,17 Proverbs 1:18,19 shall leave. Psalm 55:23 Proverbs 23:5 Ecclesiastes 5:13-16 a fool. Luke 12:20 |