Baruch 3:17
King James VersionSource notes
“They that had their pastime with the fowls of the air, and they that hoarded up silver and gold, wherein men trust, and made no end of their getting?”
Context
14Learn where is wisdom, where is strength, where is understanding; that thou mayest know also where is length of days, and life, where is the light of the eyes, and peace.
15Who hath found out her place? or who hath come into her treasures?
16Where are the princes of the heathen become, and such as ruled the beasts upon the earth;
17They that had their pastime with the fowls of the air, and they that hoarded up silver and gold, wherein men trust, and made no end of their getting?
18For they that wrought in silver, and were so careful, and whose works are unsearchable,
19They are vanished and gone down to the grave, and others are come up in their steads.
20Young men have seen light, and dwelt upon the earth: but the way of knowledge have they not known,