A covetous man may make money but his money is uncertain. It develops wings and flies away. The other day I heard of a man who made six million dollars. A financial counselor told him to sell his stock in a company because all this money was tied to the one company's stock. This man lost everything.
Money has a way of disappearing.
Covetousness, or the love of money, is the root of all evil. Covetousness can bring a person to the condition called apostasy. Covetousness can bring about one's destruction. He says such a man is like a wild animal that leaps at bait hung over a pit. The animal falls in, impales itself on a sharp stake below, and is totally destroyed.