Ecclesiastes 5:13
I observed something here that is really sickening: people who hoard money damage themselves.
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Genesis 13:5Lot, who was traveling with Abram, also had many flocks, herds, and tents,
Genesis 19:14Lot went immediately to speak to the men who were engaged to marry his daughters. “Get up quickly and leave,” he said, “because the Lord is about to destroy the town!” But they thought it was just a joke.
Genesis 19:31Sometime later the older daughter said to the younger one, “Our father is growing old, and there's no men left to give us children like everyone does.
Proverbs 1:19This is what happens to you if you try to become rich through crime—it kills you!
Proverbs 11:4Wealth won't help you on judgment day, but goodness saves you from death.
Proverbs 23:4Don't wear yourself out trying to get rich—be wise enough not to bother!
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 →