Thanks to Dee Bowman

The Book of Proverbs has more warnings about money than all the others combined. It warns that:

•     Money cannot buy peace. “Better is little with fear of the Lord than great treasure and trouble therewith.

•     Money cannot buy moral sense. “Better is a little with righteousness than great revenues without right” (16:8).

•     Money cannot buy a home. “Better is a dry morsel, and quietness therewith, than a house full of sacrifices with strife” (17:1).

•     Money cannot buy true security. “The rich man’s wealth is his strong city, and as an high wall in his own conceit [imagination, NASV]” (18:11).

•     Money cannot buy an honorable character. “Better is the poor that walketh in his uprightness than he that is perverse in his ways, though he be rich” (28:6).

•     Money cannot deliver from death. “Riches profit not in the day of wrath; but righteousness delivered from death” (11:4).^[1]

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^[1] Bowman, D. (1989). Front Lines: Money! Money! Money!. In Christianity Magazine: July 1989, Volume 6, Number 7 (2). Jacksonville, FL: Christianity Magazine.