Psalm 17:14

Good News Translation

save me from those who in this life have all they want. Punish them with the sufferings you have stored up for them; may there be enough for their children and some left over for their children's children!

Cross References

Job 12:6

But thieves and godless people live in peace, though their only god is their own strength.

Job 12:9

All of them know that the Lord's hand made them.

Job 21:21

When our lives are over, do we really care whether our children are happy?

Job 22:18

And yet it was God who made them prosperous— I can't understand the thoughts of the wicked.

Psalm 39:6

no more than a shadow. All we do is for nothing; we gather wealth, but don't know who will get it.

Psalm 73:12

That is what the wicked are like. They have plenty and are always getting more.

Proverbs 2:4

Look for it as hard as you would for silver or some hidden treasure.

Matthew 13:44

“The Kingdom of heaven is like this. A man happens to find a treasure hidden in a field. He covers it up again, and is so happy that he goes and sells everything he has, and then goes back and buys that field.

Luke 16:25

But Abraham said, ‘Remember, my son, that in your lifetime you were given all the good things, while Lazarus got all the bad things. But now he is enjoying himself here, while you are in pain.

Luke 16:8

As a result the master of this dishonest manager praised him for doing such a shrewd thing; because the people of this world are much more shrewd in handling their affairs than the people who belong to the light.”

John 15:19

If you belonged to the world, then the world would love you as its own. But I chose you from this world, and you do not belong to it; that is why the world hates you.

John 17:14

I gave them your message, and the world hated them, because they do not belong to the world, just as I do not belong to the world.

John 8:23

Jesus answered, “You belong to this world here below, but I come from above. You are from this world, but I am not from this world.

James 5:5

Your life here on earth has been full of luxury and pleasure. You have made yourselves fat for the day of slaughter.