Luke 12:20

In 9 translations

BSB

But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life will be required of you. Then who will own what you have accumulated?’

KJV

But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided?

WEB

“But God said to him, ‘You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared—whose will they be?’

ASV

But God said unto him, Thou foolish one, this night is thy soul required of thee; and the things which thou hast prepared, whose shall they be?

LSV

And God said to him, Unthinking [one]! This night your life is required of you, and what things you prepared—to whom will they be [given]?

YLT

'And God said to him, Unthinking one! this night thy soul they shall require from thee, and what things thou didst prepare — to whom shall they be?

DBY

But God said to him, Fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee; and whose shall be what thou hast prepared?Elohim

DRC

But God said to him: Thou fool, this night do they require thy soul of thee: and whose shall those things be which thou hast provided?

GNV

But God said vnto him, O foole, this night wil they fetch away thy soule from thee: then whose shall those things be which thou hast prouided?

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Original-language editions

SBLGNT

εἶπεν δὲ αὐτῷ ὁ θεός· Ἄφρων, ταύτῃ τῇ νυκτὶ τὴν ψυχήν σου ἀπαιτοῦσιν ἀπὸ σοῦ· ἃ δὲ ἡτοίμασας, τίνι ἔσται;

RP2018

Εἶπεν δὲ αὐτῷ ὁ θεός, Ἄφρον, ταύτῃ τῇ νυκτὶ τὴν ψυχήν σου ἀπαιτοῦσιν ἀπὸ σοῦ· ἃ δὲ ἡτοίμασας, τίνι ἔσται;

TR-Boyd

Εἶπε δὲ αὐτῷ ὁ Θεός, Ἄφρων, ταύτῃ τῇ νυκτὶ τὴν ψυχήν σου ἀπαιτοῦσιν ἀπὸ σοῦ· ἃ δὲ ἡτοίμασας, τίνι ἔσται;Ἄφρων ¦ Ἄφρον SCR

SCR1894

ειπεν δε αυτω ο θεος αφρον ταυτη τη νυκτι την ψυχην σου απαιτουσιν απο σου α δε ητοιμασας τινι εσται

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• Job 27:8For what is the hope of the godless when he is cut off, when God takes away his life?
• Jeremiah 17:11Like a partridge hatching eggs it did not lay is the man who makes a fortune unjustly. In the middle of his days his riches will desert him, and in the end he will be the fool.”
• 1 Timothy 6:7For we brought nothing into the world, so we cannot carry anything out of it.
• Psalms 39:6Surely every man goes about like a phantom; surely he bustles in vain; he heaps up riches not knowing who will haul them away.
• James 4:14You do not even know what will happen tomorrow! What is your life? You are a mist that appears for a little while and then vanishes.
• Psalms 49:17–19For when he dies, he will carry nothing away; his abundance will not follow him down. Though in his lifetime he blesses his soul— and men praise you when you prosper— he will join the generation of his fathers, who…
• Job 27:16–17Though he heaps up silver like dust and piles up a wardrobe like clay, what he lays up, the righteous will wear, and his silver will be divided by the innocent.
• Luke 16:22–23One day the beggar died and was carried by the angels to Abraham’s side. And the rich man also died and was buried. In Hades, where he was in torment, he looked up and saw Abraham from afar, with Lazarus by his side.
• Psalms 52:5–7Surely God will bring you down to everlasting ruin; He will snatch you up and tear you away from your tent; He will uproot you from the land of the living. Selah The righteous will see and fear; they will mock the…
• 1 Thessalonians 5:3While people are saying, “Peace and security,” destruction will come upon them suddenly, like labor pains on a pregnant woman, and they will not escape.
• Proverbs 28:8He who increases his wealth by interest and usury lays it up for one who is kind to the poor.
• Psalms 73:19How suddenly they are laid waste, completely swept away by terrors!
• Luke 11:40You fools! Did not the One who made the outside make the inside as well?
• Matthew 24:48–51But suppose that servant is wicked and says in his heart, ‘My master will be away a long time.’ And he begins to beat his fellow servants and to eat and drink with drunkards. The master of that servant will come on a…
• Proverbs 11:4Riches are worthless in the day of wrath, but righteousness brings deliverance from death.
• Nahum 1:10For they will be entangled as with thorns and consumed like the drink of a drunkard— like stubble that is fully dry.

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