Psalms 39:6. Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain:
They fret, and fume, and flurry, and worry, and all about what? About nothing. We sometimes say, "It will be all the same a hundred years hence." Ah! but it will be all the same much sooner than that, when the six feet of earth shall be all our heritage.
Psalms 39:6. He heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.
"Bethink thee," says an old writer, "every time thou dost lock up thy money in a box, how soon death shall lock thee up in thy coffin." Some men seem to be like our children’s money-boxes, into which money is put, but they must be broken before any can come out. To some men, how sad must be the thought that they have been accumulating wealth all their days, and they know not for whom they have been gathering it! A stranger may, perhaps, inherit it; or if their own kith and kin shall get it, they may squander it just as thoroughly as the misers hoarded it.
Psalms 39:6. Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain:
They fret, and fume, and flurry, and worry, and all about what? About nothing. We sometimes say, "It will be all the same a hundred years hence." Ah! but it will be all the same much sooner than that, when the six feet of earth shall be all our heritage.
Psalms 39:6. He heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.
"Bethink thee," says an old writer, "every time thou dost lock up thy money in a box, how soon death shall lock thee up in thy coffin." Some men seem to be like our children’s money-boxes, into which money is put, but they must be broken before any can come out. To some men, how sad must be the thought that they have been accumulating wealth all their days, and they know not for whom they have been gathering it! A stranger may, perhaps, inherit it; or if their own kith and kin shall get it, they may squander it just as thoroughly as the misers hoarded it.