The Transiency of the Wealth

(Psalm 16:1-11; Matthew 28:1-10; Mark 16:1-8; Luke 24:1-12; John 20:1-9)

1Unto the end, a psalm for the sons of Core. Hear these things, all ye nations: give ear, all ye inhabitants of the world.

2All you that are earthborn, and you sons of men: both rich and poor together.

3My mouth shall speak wisdom: and the meditation of my heart understanding.

4I will incline my ear to a parable; I will open my proposition on the psaltery.

5Why shall I fear in the evil day? the iniquity of my heel shall encompass me.

6They that trust in their own strength, and glory in the multitude of their riches,

7No brother can redeem, nor shall man redeem: he shall not give to God his ransom,

8Nor the price of the redemption of his soul: and shall labour for ever,

9and shall still live unto the end.

10He shall not see destruction, when he shall see the wise dying: the senseless and the fool shall perish together: And they shall leave their riches to strangers:

11and their sepulchres shall be their houses for ever. Their dwelling places to all generations: they have called their lands by their names.

12And man when he was in honour did not understand; he is compared to senseless beasts, and is become like to them.

13This way of theirs is a stumblingblock to them: and afterwards they shall delight in their mouth.

14They are laid in hell like sheep: death shall feed upon them. And the just shall have dominion over them in the morning; and their help shall decay in hell from their glory.

15But God will redeem my soul from the hand of hell, when he shall receive me.

16Be not thou afraid, when a man shall be made rich, and when the glory of his house shall be increased.

17For when he shall die he shall take nothing away; nor shall his glory descend with him.

18For in his lifetime his soul will be blessed: and he will praise thee when thou shalt do well to him.

19He shall go in to the generations of his fathers: and he shall never see light.

20Man when he was in honour did not understand: he hath been compared to senseless beasts, and made like to them.