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 with Apocrypha
In The 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 →