Ecclesiastes 5:13
There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt.
King James Version
In Context
14But those riches perish by evil travail: and he begetteth a son, and there is nothing in his hand.
Cross References
Genesis 13:5And Lot also, which went with Abram, had flocks, and herds, and tents.
Genesis 19:14And Lot went out, and spake unto his sons in law, which married his daughters, and said, Up, get you out of this place; for the LORD will destroy this city. But he seemed as one that mocked unto his sons in law.
Genesis 19:31And the firstborn said unto the younger, Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth to come in unto us after the manner of all the earth:
Proverbs 1:19So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.
Proverbs 11:4Riches profit not in the day of wrath: but righteousness delivereth from death.
Proverbs 23:4Labour not to be rich: cease from thine own wisdom.
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 →