Luke 12:20
Berean Standard Bible (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?’
In context
18 Then he said, ‘This is what I will do: I will tear down my barns and will build bigger ones, and there I will store up all my grain and my goods.
19 Then I will say to myself, “You have plenty of good things laid up for many years. Take it easy. Eat, drink, and be merry!”’
20 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?’
21 This is how it will be for anyone who stores up treasure for himself but is not rich toward God.”
22 Then Jesus said to His disciples, “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat, or about your body, what you will wear.
Luke 12:20 in every translation
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- 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 King James Version
- 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 World English Bible
- “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 American Standard Version
- 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?
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- '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 Darby Translation
- But God said to him, Fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee; and whose shall be what thou hast prepared?
- WBS Webster Bible
- But God said to him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be which thou hast provided?