Luke 12:19-20

The Parable of the Rich Fool

¹⁹ And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have ample goods laid up _z for many years; relax, _a eat, drink, be merry.' ²⁰ But God said to him, _b 'Fool! _z This night _c your soul is required of you, and the things you have prepared, _d whose will they be?'

1. Cross References
   Proverbs 27:1
   Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring.
   James 4:13 - 15
   Come now, you who say, "Today or tomorrow we will go into such and such a town and spend a year there and trade and make a profit" -
   
2. Cross References
   Ecclesiastes 2:24
   There is nothing better for a person than that he should eat and drink and find enjoyment in his toil. This also, I saw, is from the hand of God.
   Ecclesiastes 11:9
   Rejoice, O young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth. Walk in the ways of your heart and the sight of your eyes. But know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.
   1 Corinthians 15:32
   What do I gain if, humanly speaking, I fought with beasts at Ephesus? If the dead are not raised, "Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die.
   Luke 15:23
   And bring the fattened calf and kill it, and let us eat and celebrate.
   
3. Cross References
   Jeremiah 17:11
   Like the partridge that gathers a brood that she did not hatch, so is he who gets riches but not by justice; in the midst of his days they will leave him, and at his end he will be a fool.
   Matthew 16:26
   For what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and forfeits his soul? Or what shall a man give in return for his soul?
   
4. Cross References
   Luke 12:19
   And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have ample goods laid up for many years; relax, eat, drink, be merry.
   
5. Cross References
   Job 27:8
   For what is the hope of the godless when God cuts him off, when God takes away his life?
   
6. Cross References
   Psalms 39:6
   Surely a man goes about as a shadow! Surely for nothing they are in turmoil; man heaps up wealth and does not know who will gather!
   Job 27:17 - 22
   He may pile it up, but the righteous will wear it, and the innocent will divide the silver.
   Ecclesiastes 2:18
   I hated all my toil in which I toil under the sun, seeing that I must leave it to the man who will come after me.
   Ecclesiastes 2:21
   Because sometimes a person who has toiled with wisdom and knowledge and skill must leave everything to be enjoyed by someone who did not toil for it. This also is vanity and a great evil.