Jeremiah 17:11

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

As the partridge hath hatched eggs which she did not lay: so is he that hath gathered riches, and not by right. In the midst of his days he shall leave them: and in his latter end he shall be a fool.

Cross References

Proverbs 28:20

A faithful man shall be much praised: but he that maketh haste to be rich, shall not be innocent.

Proverbs 21:6

He that gathereth treasures by a lying tongue, is vain and foolish, and shall stumble upon the snares of death.

Jeremiah 22:17

But thy eyes and thy heart are set upon covetousness and upon shedding innocent blood and upon oppression and running after evil works.

Jeremiah 22:13

Woe to him that buildeth up his house by injustice, and his chambers not in judgement: that will oppress his friend without cause and will not pay him his wages.

Proverbs 28:8

He that heapeth together riches by usury and loan, gathereth them for him that will be bountiful to the poor.

Proverbs 15:27

He that is greedy of gain troubleth his own house: but he that hateth bribes shall live. By mercy and faith sins are purged away: and by the fear of the Lord every one declineth from evil.

2 Peter 2:14

Having eyes full of adultery and of sin that ceaseth not: alluring unstable souls, having their heart exercised with covetousness, children of malediction:

Titus 1:11

Who must be reproved, who subvert whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake.

Zephaniah 1:9

And I will visit in that day upon every one that entereth arrogantly over the threshold: them that fill the house of the Lord their God with iniquity and deceit.

Proverbs 28:22

A man, that maketh haste to be rich, and envieth others, is ignorant that poverty shall come upon him.

Proverbs 13:11

Substance got in haste shall be diminished: but that which by little and little is gathered with the hand shall increase.

Luke 12:20

But God said to him: Thou fool, this night do they require thy soul of thee: and whose shall those things be which thou hast provided?

2 Peter 2:3

And through covetousness shall they with feigned words make merchandise of you. Whose judgment now of a long time lingereth not, and their perdition slumbereth not.

1 Timothy 6:9

For they that will become rich, fall into temptation, and into the snare of the devil, and into many unprofitable and hurtful desires, which drown men into destruction and perdition.

Matthew 23:13

But woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; because you shut the kingdom of heaven against men, for you yourselves do not enter in; and those that are going in, you suffer not to enter.

Malachi 3:5

And I will come to you in judgment, and will be a speedy witness against sorcerers, and adulterers, and false swearers, and them that oppress the hireling in his wages; the widows, and the fatherless: and oppress the stranger, and have not feared me, saith the Lord of hosts.

Zechariah 5:4

I will bring it forth, saith the Lord of hosts: and it shall come to the house of the thief, and to the house of him that sweareth falsely by my name: and it shall remain in the midst of his house, and shall consume it, with the timber thereof, and the stones thereof.

Micah 7:3

The evil of their hands they call good: the prince requireth, and the judge is for giving: and the great man hath uttered the desire of his soul, and they have troubled it.

Micah 2:9

You have cast out the women of my people from their houses, in which they took delight: you have taken my praise for ever from their children.

Amos 3:10

And they have not known to do the right thing, saith the Lord, storing up iniquity, and robberies in their houses.

Proverbs 28:16

A prince void of prudence shall oppress many by calumny: but he that hateth covetousness, shall prolong his days.

Proverbs 23:5

Lift not up thy eyes to riches which thou canst not have: because they shall make themselves wings like those of an eagle, and shall fly towards heaven.

Psalm 49:13

Shall I eat the flesh of bullocks? or shall I drink the blood of goats?

Jeremiah 6:13

For, from the least of them even to the greatest, all are given to covetousness: and from the prophet even to the priest, all are guilty of deceit.

Jeremiah 8:10

Therefore I will give their women to strangers, their fields to others for an inheritance: because from the least even to the greatest all follow covetousness: from the prophet even to the priest all deal deceitfully.

Job 20:21

There was nothing left of his meat: and therefore nothing shall continue of his goods.