when your cattle and flocks increase, when you have plenty of silver and gold, and when you have abundance of everything,
His possessions included 7,000 sheep, 3,000 camels, 500 yoke of oxen, and 500 female donkeys; in addition he had a very great household. Thus he was the greatest of all the people in the east.
Surely people go through life as mere ghosts. Surely they accumulate worthless wealth without knowing who will eventually haul it away.”
When you eat your fill, when you build and occupy good houses,
be sure you do not feel self-important and forget the Lord your God who brought you from the land of Egypt, the place of slavery,