The following commentary on the parallel in Luke 12 says that this is a rabbinic construction: > 20. Fool! says God. A man’s life is an uncertain thing at best and no-one has the assurance that he will live the years he would like. > The really stupid thing was the rich man’s easy assurance that the > future was in his control. **God said to him This night (first for > emphasis) your soul is required of you. The verb is literally ‘they > require’, a construction common among the rabbis to denote an action > of God (SB), i.e. ‘God requires your soul’.** A man whose life hangs > by a thread and who may be called upon at any time to give account of > himself is a fool if he relies on material things. > > Morris, L. (1988). Luke: an introduction and commentary (Vol. 3, p. > 231). Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press. The commentary refers to SB, which is identified as this source: > Herman L. Strack and Paul Billerbeck, Kommentar zum neuen Testament > aus Talmud und Midrasch, 6 vols. (C. H. Beck’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, > 1922–56).