Psalm 17:14

Modern English Version

from men by Your hand, O  Lord, from men of the world whose portion is in this life. You fill their belly with Your treasure; they are satisfied with children, and they leave their abundance to their infants.

Cross References

Job 12:6

The tents of robbers are at peace, and those who provoke God are secure, into whose hand they bring their own god.

Job 12:9

Who among all these does not know that the hand of the Lord has done this,

Job 21:21

For what do they care about their households after them, when the number of their months is cut off?

Job 22:18

Yet He filled their houses with good things; but the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

Psalm 39:6

Surely every man walks around like a shadow; surely they make an uproar in vain; he heaps up riches, and does not know who will gather them.

Psalm 73:12

Behold, these are the wicked; always at ease, they increase in riches.

Proverbs 2:4

if you seek her as silver and search for her as for hidden treasures,

Matthew 13:44

“Again, the kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which a man found and hid. And with joy over it he goes and sells all that he has and buys that field.

Luke 16:25

“But Abraham said, ‘Son, remember that you in your lifetime received your good things, and Lazarus in like manner evil things. But now he is comforted and you are tormented.

Luke 16:8

“The master commended the dishonest steward, because he had acted prudently. For the sons of this age are wiser in their own generation than the sons of light.

John 15:19

If you were of the world, the world would love you as its own. But because you are not of the world, since I chose you out of the world, the world therefore hates you.

John 17:14

I have given them Your word. And the world has hated them, because they are not of the world, just as I am not of the world.

John 8:23

He said to them, “You are from below; I am from above. You are of this world; I am not of this world.

James 5:5

You have lived in pleasure on the earth and have been wayward. You have nourished your hearts as in a day of slaughter.