15 En Hy sê vir hulle: Pas op en wees op julle hoede vir die hebsug, want iemand se lewe bestaan nie uit die oorvloed van sy besittings nie.

16 Toe vertel Hy hulle hierdie gelykenis: 'n Ryk man se grond het goed gedra.

17 En hy het by homself geredeneer en gesê: Wat sal ek doen, want ek het geen plek waar ek my oes kan insamel nie?

18 Toe sê hy: Dit sal ek doen: ek sal my skure afbreek en groter bou, en ek sal daar al my opbrengste en my goed insamel.

19 En ek sal vir my siel sê: Siel, jy het baie goed wat weggesit is vir baie jare; neem rus, eet, drink, wees vrolik.

20 Maar God het aan hom gesê: Jou dwaas, in hierdie nag sal hulle jou siel van jou afeis; en wat jy gereedgemaak het, wie s'n sal dit wees?

21 So gaan dit met hom wat vir homself skatte vergader en nie ryk is in God nie.

15 And he said to them, Take care to keep yourselves free from the desire for property; for a man's life is not made up of the number of things which he has.

16 And he said to them, in a story, The land of a certain man of great wealth was very fertile:

17 And he said to himself, What is to be done? for I have no place in which to put all my fruit.

18 And he said, This I will do: I will take down my store-houses and make greater ones, and there I will put all my grain and my goods.

19 And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have a great amount of goods in store, enough for a number of years; be at rest, take food and wine and be happy.

20 But God said to him, You foolish one, tonight I will take your soul from you, and who then will be the owner of all the things which you have got together?

21 So that is what comes to the man who gets wealth for himself, and has not wealth in the eyes of God.