Ecclesiastes 5:13
There is a grievous evil that I have seen under the sun: riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt;
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Genesis 13:5And Lot also who went with Abram had flocks, and herds, and tents.
Genesis 19:14And Lot went out, and spoke to his sons-in-law, who had married his daughters, and said, Up, go out of this place, for Jehovah will destroy the city. But he was as if he jested, in the sight of his sons-in-law.
Genesis 19:31And the first-born said to the younger, Our father is old, and there is not a man in the land to come in to us after the manner of all the earth:
Proverbs 1:19So are the paths of every one that is greedy of gain: it taketh away the life of its possessors.
Proverbs 11:4Wealth profiteth not in the day of wrath; but righteousness delivereth from death.
Proverbs 23:4Weary not thyself to become rich; cease from thine own intelligence:
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 →