Ecclesiastes 5:13
(5-12) There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept by the owner thereof to his hurt;
JPS TaNaKH 1917
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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 unto his sons-in-law, who married his daughters, and said: 'Up, get you out of this place; for the LORD will destroy the city.' But he seemed unto his sons-in-law as one that jested.
Genesis 19:31And the first-born 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; it taketh away the life of the owners thereof.
Proverbs 11:4Riches profit not in the day of wrath; but righteousness delivereth from death.
Proverbs 23:4Weary not thyself 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 →