Do not rely on deceitful wealth, for it will be no help on the day of wrath. Ben Sira 5:8
Lose your money for relative or friend;
do not hide it under a stone to rot.
11 Dispose of your treasure according to the commandments of the Most High,
and that will profit you more than the gold. Ben Sira 29:10,11
44:9 For everything will pass away which is corruptible, and everything that dies will go away, and all present time will be forgotten, and there will be no remembrance of the present time which is polluted by evils.
44:10 For he who runs now runs in vain and he who is happy will fall quickly and be humiliated.
44:11 For that which will be in the future, that is what one will look for, and that which comes later, that is what we shall hope for. For there is a time that does not pass away.
44:12 And that period is coming which will remain forever; and there is the new world which does not carry back to corruption those who enter into its beginning, and which has no mercy on those who come into torment or those who are living in it, and it does not carry to perdition.
44:13 For those are the ones who will inherit this time of which it is spoken, and to these is the heritage of the promised time.
44:14 These are they who prepared for themselves treasures of wisdom. And stores of insight are found with them. And they have not withdrawn from mercy and they have preserved the Truth of the Torah.
44:15 For the coming world will be given to these, but the habitation of the many others will be in the fire. 2nd Baruch 44:9-15
Mammon is the a master we cannot serve. Consumerism, coveting is the god over this nation (USA) and many have fallen and will fall pursuing this at the cost of their soul.
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