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Sour Grapes?


ThePilgrim

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Is it just sour grapes on my part that I post this?  I suppose most will think so. 
 
James 5:1-6
 
5 Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
 
2 Your riches are corrupted, and your garments are motheaten.
 
3 Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.
 
4 Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.
 
5 Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.
 
6 Ye have condemned and killed the just; and he doth not resist you.
KJV
 
 
And just so the size of those dollar numbers could be appreciated, I put the zeroes back on them so the true size of the "heaped treasure" would be seen.  By the way that total at the bottom with thirteen places above the decimal is trillions.  Not that the size of the number really matters because it is prOBably way beyond the power of the human imagination to imagine a "heap" that size.
 
Bill Gates $76,000,000,000.00 Carlos Slim Helu $72,000,000,000.00 Amancio Ortega $64,000,000,000.00 Warren Buffett $58,000,000,000.00 Larry Ellison $48,000,000,000.00 Charles Koch $40,000,000,000.00 David Koch $40,000,000,000.00 Sheldon Adelson $38,000,000,000.00 Christy Walton $37,000,000,000.00 Jim Walton $35,000,000,000.00 Liliane Bettencourt $35,000,000,000.00 Stefan Persson $34,000,000,000.00 Alice Walton $34,000,000,000.00 S. ROBson Walton $34,000,000,000.00 Bernard Arnault $34,000,000,000.00 Michael Bloomberg $33,000,000,000.00 Larry Page $32,000,000,000.00 Jeff Bezos $32,000,000,000.00 Sergey Brin $32,000,000,000.00 Li Ka-shing $31,000,000,000.00 Mark Zuckerberg $29,000,000,000.00 Michele Ferrero $27,000,000,000.00 Aliko Dangote $25,000,000,000.00 Karl Albrecht $25,000,000,000.00 Carl Icahn $25,000,000,000.00 George Soros $23,000,000,000.00 David Thomson $23,000,000,000.00 Lui Che Woo $22,000,000,000.00 Dieter Schwarz $21,000,000,000.00 Alwaleed Bin Talal Alsaud $20,000,000,000.00 Forrest Mars Jr. $20,000,000,000.00 Jacqueline Mars $20,000,000,000.00 John Mars $20,000,000,000.00 Jorge Paulo Lemann $20,000,000,000.00 Lee Shau Kee $20,000,000,000.00 Steve Ballmer $19,000,000,000.00 Theo Albrecht Jr. $19,000,000,000.00 Leonardo Del Vecchio $19,000,000,000.00 Len Blavatnik $19,000,000,000.00 Alisher Usmanov $19,000,000,000.00 Mukesh Ambani $19,000,000,000.00 Masayoshi Son $18,000,000,000.00 Michael Otto $18,000,000,000.00 Phil Knight $18,000,000,000.00 Tadashi Yanai $18,000,000,000.00 Gina Rinehart $18,000,000,000.00 Mikhail Fridman $18,000,000,000.00 Michael Dell $18,000,000,000.00 Susanne Klatten $17,000,000,000.00 Abigail Johnson $17,000,000,000.00 Viktor Vekselberg $17,000,000,000.00 Lakshmi Mittal $17,000,000,000.00 Vladimir Lisin $17,000,000,000.00 Cheng Yu-tung $16,000,000,000.00 Joseph Safra $16,000,000,000.00 Paul Allen $16,000,000,000.00 Leonid Mikhelson $16,000,000,000.00 Anne Cox Chambers $16,000,000,000.00 Francois Pinault $16,000,000,000.00 Iris Fontbona $16,000,000,000.00 Azim Premji $15,000,000,000.00 Mohammed Al Amoudi $15,000,000,000.00 Gennady Timchenko $15,000,000,000.00 Wang Jianlin $15,000,000,000.00 Charles Ergen $15,000,000,000.00 Stefan Quandt $15,000,000,000.00 Germán Larrea Mota Velasco $15,000,000,000.00 Harold Hamm $15,000,000,000.00 Ray Dalio $14,000,000,000.00 Donald Bren $14,000,000,000.00 Georg Schaeffler $14,000,000,000.00 Luis Carlos Sarmiento $14,000,000,000.00 Ronald Perelman $14,000,000,000.00 Laurene Powell JOBs $14,000,000,000.00 Serge Dassault $14,000,000,000.00 John Fredriksen $14,000,000,000.00 Vagit Alekperov $14,000,000,000.00 John Paulson $14,000,000,000.00 Rupert Murdoch $14,000,000,000.00 Ma Huateng $13,000,000,000.00   $1,903,000,000,000.00
 

 

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Most of these people give a tiny percentage to some worldly causes or groups and think they are wonderful for doing so. No doubt their wealth affords them much in this life and affords them so many grand opportunities (whether they take them or not) but no matter how large their heaping hoards of money is, they can't buy themselves out of hell or into heaven.

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