Ecclesiastes 5:13
For they are lost in a most grievous affliction. He has produced a son, who will be in the utmost destitution.
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Genesis 13:5But Lot also, who was with Abram, had flocks of sheep, and cattle, and tents.
Genesis 19:14And so Lot, going out, spoke to his sons-in-law, who were going to receive his daughters, and he said: “Rise up. Depart from this place. For the Lord will destroy this city.” And it seemed to them that he was speaking playfully.
Genesis 19:31And the elder said to the younger: “Our father is old, and no man remains in the land who can enter to us according to the custom of the whole world.
Proverbs 1:19Thus, the ways of all those who are greedy seize the souls of those who possess.
Proverbs 11:4Wealth will not profit in the day of vengeance. But justice shall liberate from death.
Proverbs 23:4Do not be willing to labor so that you may be enriched. But set limits by your prudence.
Matthew Henry on Ecclesiastes 5:10-18
The Vanity of Riches. 9 Moreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king himself is served by the field. 10 He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity. 11 When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: and what good is there to the owners thereof, saving the beholding of them with their eyes? 12 The sleep of a labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.… Read the whole commentary →