Ecclesiastes 5:13
Yet is there a sore plague which I haue seene vnder the sunne [namely] riches kept to the hurt of him that hath them in possession:
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Genesis 13:5Lot also whiche went with Abram, had sheepe, cattell, and tentes.
Genesis 19:14And Lot went out, and spake vnto his sonnes in lawe which maried his daughters, saying: Stande vp, get ye out of this place, for the Lorde wyll ouerthrowe this citie. But he seemed as though he had mocked, vnto his sonnes in lawe.
Genesis 19:31And the elder said vnto the younger: our father is olde, and there is not a man in the earth to come in vnto vs after the maner of all the worlde.
Proverbs 1:19Such [are] the wayes of euery one that is greedie of gayne, who taketh away the life of the owner therof.
Proverbs 11:4Riches helpe not in the day of vengeaunce: but ryghteousnesse deliuereth from death.
Proverbs 23:4Take not ouer great trauayle to be riche, beware of suche a purpose.
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 →