• Proverbs 10:1
    The proverbs of Solomon:
    A wise son makes a glad father,
    But a foolish son is the grief of his mother.

     
  • Proverbs 10:8
    The wise in heart will receive commands,
    But a prating fool will fall.

     
  • Proverbs 15:21
    Folly is joy to him who is destitute of discernment,
    But a man of understanding walks uprightly.

     
  • Ecclesiastes 2:1-22
    I said in my heart, “Come now, I will test you with mirth; therefore enjoy pleasure”; but surely, this also was vanity. I said of laughter—“Madness!”; and of mirth, “What does it accomplish?” I searched in my heart how to gratify my flesh with wine, while guiding my heart with wisdom, and how to lay hold on folly, till I might see what was good for the sons of men to do under heaven all the days of their lives. I made my works great, I built myself houses, and planted myself vineyards. I made myself gardens and orchards, and I planted all kinds of fruit trees in them. I made myself water pools from which to water the growing trees of the grove. I acquired male and female servants, and had servants born in my house. Yes, I had greater possessions of herds and flocks than all who were in Jerusalem before me. I also gathered for myself silver and gold and the special treasures of kings and of the provinces. I acquired male and female singers, the delights of the sons of men, and musical instruments of all kinds. So I became great and excelled more than all who were before me in Jerusalem. Also my wisdom remained with me.
    Whatever my eyes desired I did not keep from them.
    I did not withhold my heart from any pleasure,
    For my heart rejoiced in all my labor;
    And this was my reward from all my labor.
    Then I looked on all the works that my hands had done
    And on the labor in which I had toiled;
    And indeed all was vanity and grasping for the wind.
    There was no profit under the sun. Then I turned myself to consider wisdom and madness and folly;
    For what can the man do who succeeds the king?—
    Only what he has already done.
    Then I saw that wisdom excels folly
    As light excels darkness.
    The wise man’s eyes are in his head,
    But the fool walks in darkness.
    Yet I myself perceived
    That the same event happens to them all.
    So I said in my heart,
    “ As it happens to the fool,
    It also happens to me,
    And why was I then more wise?”
    Then I said in my heart,
    “ This also is vanity.”
    For there is no more remembrance of the wise than of the fool forever,
    Since all that now is will be forgotten in the days to come.
    And how does a wise man die?
    As the fool! Therefore I hated life because the work that was done under the sun was distressing to me, for all is vanity and grasping for the wind. Then I hated all my labor in which I had toiled under the sun, because I must leave it to the man who will come after me. And who knows whether he will be wise or a fool? Yet he will rule over all my labor in which I toiled and in which I have shown myself wise under the sun. This also is vanity. Therefore I turned my heart and despaired of all the labor in which I had toiled under the sun. For there is a man whose labor is with wisdom, knowledge, and skill; yet he must leave his heritage to a man who has not labored for it. This also is vanity and a great evil. For what has man for all his labor, and for the striving of his heart with which he has toiled under the sun?
     
  • 2 Timothy 3:4
    traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,
     
  • Psalm 49:1-4
    Hear this, all peoples;
    Give ear, all inhabitants of the world,
    Both low and high,
    Rich and poor together.
    My mouth shall speak wisdom,
    And the meditation of my heart shall give understanding.
    I will incline my ear to a proverb;
    I will disclose my dark saying on the harp.
     
  • Psalm 49:6-12
    Those who trust in their wealth
    And boast in the multitude of their riches,
    None of them can by any means redeem his brother,
    Nor give to God a ransom for him'
    For the redemption of their souls is costly,
    And it shall cease forever'
    That he should continue to live eternally,
    And not see the Pit. For he sees wise men die;
    Likewise the fool and the senseless person perish,
    And leave their wealth to others.
    Their inner thought is that their houses will last forever,
    Their dwelling places to all generations;
    They call their lands after their own names.
    Nevertheless man, though in honor, does not remain;
    He is like the beasts that perish.
     
  • Proverbs 14:13
    Even in laughter the heart may sorrow,
    And the end of mirth may be grief.

     
  • Proverbs 29:3
    Whoever loves wisdom makes his father rejoice,
    But a companion of harlots wastes his wealth.

     
  • Ecclesiastes 1:11
    There is no remembrance of former things,
    Nor will there be any remembrance of things that are to come
    By those who will come after.
     
  • Ecclesiastes 1:13
    And I set my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all that is done under heaven; this burdensome task God has given to the sons of man, by which they may be exercised.
     
  • Ecclesiastes 2:24-26
    Nothing is better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and that his soul should enjoy good in his labor. This also, I saw, was from the hand of God. For who can eat, or who can have enjoyment, more than I? For God gives wisdom and knowledge and joy to a man who is good in His sight; but to the sinner He gives the work of gathering and collecting, that he may give to him who is good before God. This also is vanity and grasping for the wind.
     
  • Romans 7:21-25
    I find then a law, that evil is present with me, the one who wills to do good. For I delight in the law of God according to the inward man. But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members. O wretched man that I am! Who will deliver me from this body of death? I thank God—through Jesus Christ our Lord! So then, with the mind I myself serve the law of God, but with the flesh the law of sin.
     
  • Colossians 3:1-7
    If then you were raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is, sitting at the right hand of God. Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth. For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ who is our life appears, then you also will appear with Him in glory. Therefore put to death your members which are on the earth: fornication, uncleanness, passion, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry. Because of these things the wrath of God is coming upon the sons of disobedience, in which you yourselves once walked when you lived in them.