Ecclesiastes 5:13

For they are lost with very great affliction: he hath begotten a son, who shall be in extremity of want.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt.

In Context

12There is also another grievous evil, which I have seen under the sun: riches kept to the hurt of the owner.

14As he came forth naked from his mother's womb, so shall he return, and shall take nothing away with him of his labour.

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Cross References

Genesis 13:5But Lot also, who was with Abram, had flocks of sheep, and herds of beasts, and tents.

Genesis 19:14So Lot went out, and spoke to his sons in law that were to have his daughters, and said : Arise : get you out of this place, because the Lord will destroy this city. And he seemed to them to speak as it were in jest.

Genesis 19:31And the elder said to the younger Our father is old, and there is no man left on the earth, to come in unto us after the manner of the whole earth.

Proverbs 1:19So the wage of every covetous man destroy the souls of the possessors.

Proverbs 11:4Riches shall not profit in the day of revenge: but justice shall deliver from death.

Proverbs 23:4Labour not to be rich: but set bounds to thy 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 →

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