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Better is he who is lightly esteemed but works for his own support than he who assumes honor for himself and lacks bread.

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20 But God said to him, You fool! This very night [a] they [the messengers of God] will demand your soul of you; and all the things that you have prepared, whose will they be?(A)

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 12:20 Marvin Vincent, Word Studies: “The indefiniteness is impressive.”

21 So it is with the one who continues to lay up and hoard possessions for himself and is not rich [in his relation] to God [this is how he fares].

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