'And God said to him, Unthinking one! this night thy soul they shall require from thee, and what things thou didst prepare -- to whom shall they be?Luke 12:20 Additional Translations
Clarke's Commentary on the BibleThou fool! - To imagine that a man's comfort and peace can depend upon temporal things; or to suppose that these can satisfy the wishes of an immortal spirit!
This night - How awful was this saying! He had just made the necessary arrangements for the gratification of his sensual appetites; and, in the very night in which he had finally settled all his plans, his soul was called into the eternal world! What a dreadful awakening of a soul, long asleep in sin! He is now hurried into the presence of his Maker; none of his worldly goods can accompany him, and he has not a particle of heavenly treasure! There is a passage much like this in the book of Ecclesiasticus, 11:18, 19. There is that waxeth rich by his wariness and pinching, and this is the portion of his reward: Whereas he saith, I have found rest, and now will eat continually of my goods; and yet he knoweth not what time shall come upon him; and that he must leave those things to others, and die. We may easily see whence the above is borrowed.
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God.
Luke 16:22,23 And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried...
Exodus 16:9,10 And Moses spoke to Aaron, Say to all the congregation of the children of Israel, Come near before the LORD...
1 Samuel 25:36-38 And Abigail came to Nabal; and, behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king; and Nabal's heart was merry within him...
2 Samuel 13:28,29 Now Absalom had commanded his servants, saying, Mark you now when Amnon's heart is merry with wine, and when I say to you, Smite Amnon...
1 Kings 16:9,10 And his servant Zimri, captain of half his chariots, conspired against him, as he was in Tirzah...
Job 20:20-23 Surely he shall not feel quietness in his belly, he shall not save of that which he desired...
Job 27:8 For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he has gained, when God takes away his soul?
Psalm 73:19 How are they brought into desolation, as in a moment! they are utterly consumed with terrors.
Psalm 78:30 They were not estranged from their lust. But while their meat was yet in their mouths,
Daniel 5:1-6,25-30 Belshazzar the king made a great feast to a thousand of his lords, and drank wine before the thousand...
Nahum 1:10 For while they be entwined together as thorns, and while they are drunken as drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.
Matthew 24:48-51 But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delays his coming...
1 Thessalonians 5:3 For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction comes on them, as travail on a woman with child...
Thou fool.
Luke 11:40 You fools, did not he that made that which is without make that which is within also?
Jeremiah 17:11 As the partridge sits on eggs, and hatches them not; so he that gets riches, and not by right...
James 4:14 Whereas you know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapor, that appears for a little time...
thy soul shall be required of thee. or, do they require thy soul. then.
Esther 5:11 And Haman told them of the glory of his riches, and the multitude of his children, and all the things wherein the king had promoted him...
Esther 8:1,2 On that day did the king Ahasuerus give the house of Haman the Jews' enemy to Esther the queen. And Mordecai came before the king...
Job 27:16,17 Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare raiment as the clay...
Psalm 39:6 Surely every man walks in a vain show: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heaps up riches, and knows not who shall gather them.
Psalm 49:17-19 For when he dies he shall carry nothing away: his glory shall not descend after him...
Psalm 52:5-7 God shall likewise destroy you for ever, he shall take you away, and pluck you out of your dwelling place...
Proverbs 11:4 Riches profit not in the day of wrath: but righteousness delivers from death.
Proverbs 28:8 He that by usury and unjust gain increases his substance, he shall gather it for him that will pity the poor.
Ecclesiastes 2:18-22 Yes, I hated all my labor which I had taken under the sun: because I should leave it to the man that shall be after me...
Ecclesiastes 5:14-16 But those riches perish by evil travail: and he begets a son, and there is nothing in his hand...
Jeremiah 17:11 As the partridge sits on eggs, and hatches them not; so he that gets riches, and not by right...
Daniel 5:28 PERES; Your kingdom is divided, and given to the Medes and Persians.
1 Timothy 6:7 For we brought nothing into this world, and it is certain we can carry nothing out.
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