Job 1:21
1:21 He said, “Naked
I came from my mother’s womb, and naked I will return there.
The
Lord gives, and the
Lord takes away.
May the name of the
Lord be blessed!”
Job 12:9-10
12:9 Which of all these does not know
that the hand of the Lord has done this,
12:10 in whose hand is the life of every creature
and the breath of all the human race.
Psalms 49:6-7
49:6 They trust in their wealth
and boast in their great riches.
49:7 Certainly a man cannot rescue his brother;
he cannot pay God an adequate ransom price
Psalms 52:5-7
52:5 Yet God will make you a permanent heap of ruins.
He will scoop you up and remove you from your home;
he will uproot you from the land of the living. (Selah)
52:6 When the godly see this, they will be filled with awe,
and will mock the evildoer, saying:
52:7 “Look, here is the man who would not make God his protector!
He trusted in his great wealth
and was confident about his plans to destroy others.”
Ecclesiastes 8:8
8:8 Just as no one has power over the wind to restrain it,
so no one has power over the day of his death.
Just as no one can be discharged during the battle,
so wickedness cannot rescue the wicked.
Luke 16:2
16:2 So
he called the manager
in and said to him, ‘What is this I hear about you?
Turn in the account of your administration,
because you can no longer be my manager.’
Luke 16:25
16:25 But Abraham said, ‘Child,
remember that in your lifetime you received your good things and Lazarus likewise bad things, but now he is comforted here and you are in anguish.