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Job 27:16-17
16 Though he heap up [tsabar] silver [keceph] as the dust [`aphar], and prepare [kuwn] raiment [malbuwsh] as the clay [chomer];
17 He may prepare [kuwn] it, but the just [tsaddiyq] shall put it on [labash], and the innocent [naqiy] shall divide [chalaq] the silver [keceph]. KJV-Interlinear
16 'Though he piles up silver like dust, And prepares garments as plentiful as the clay; 17 He may prepare it, but the just will wear it, And the innocent will divide the silver. NASB
Silver is spending money and dust is everywhere. Garments are clothing or robes, and clay is also common and often a term used to refer to things. Today we would use the word clay to refer to our homes, furniture, knick-knack's, cars, collections, hobby stuff and so on. Anything that appeals to your eye and of which you buy for your own possession because it pleases you, is clay.
And so we have the priorities of the spiritually negative person - money and things. These are possessions, or things you can own.
Now put everything in life, in perspective. When you get the chance, review the 'Dispensations - Five Phase' chart. Look at it closely. What is the beginning and what is the end? The beginning is God. He is in charge of everything. The end is where we will all end up one day. Everything (human activity) in between is temporary.
Knowing that you are going to one day end up in eternity, and presumably in heaven of course, then isn't it reasonable to presume that our priorities in life should be oriented toward that goal?
But the spiritually negative person does not see life in that way. All they see is the now. Of course, they see the cemeteries and people dying in the movies and in life. All of the folks from early last century and centuries before that, are dead and gone. Everyone in history is dead and gone. But somehow, that reality doesn't seem to sink in.
And so the 'now' is driven by the quest for money and things. Of course people want the sex, power, and the pleasures of life, but those things are not possessions. They are just experiences that excite the emotions and such.
The possessions of life are what become important. Those are the things that people can show off and boast about in their social circles. And the 'love,' of money and things, is often the end result of the spiritually negative persons focus in life.
But, and this is the big but of life, all of these things are temporary. They are never permanent. The very moment of ones death, they all disappear from that persons life. Sure these things transfer to others, others who might build them even greater, or fight over them, or squander them, but sooner or later history will come to an end and all the possessions of history will disappear when this universe is destroyed.
What then?
No one person can own anything for longer than their own life span. And the human race will lose everything at the end of history.
And remember that all wicked people in history are not unbelievers. Many are believers who just don't get with their spiritual life.
Only those who have advanced to spiritual maturity, will receive the very phenomenal blessings and eternal possessions of eternity, while all those who have rejected their spiritual life, during their life, will forfeit their eternal blessings.
Having all of the gold in the world for a few decades might be nice for the moment, and certainly everyone would like to be rich, but to ignore ones spiritual life will cause you to lose blessings that far exceed the value of that gold, for all of eternity.
Would you rather be a millionaire now or a trillionaire in eternity? Well, of course you want to be both, but not all of us have that choice in life. It is generally one or the other, so now choose, but choose wisely.
