Ecclesiastes 5:13
And that wealth shall perish in an evil trouble: and the man begets a son, and there is nothing in his hand.
LXX2012 (US English)
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Cross References
Genesis 13:5And Lot who went out with Abram had sheep, and oxen, + 13:5 Alex. cattle. and tents.
Genesis 19:14And Lot went out, and spoke to his sons-in-law who had married his daughters, and said, Rise up, and depart out of this place, for the Lord is about to destroy the city; but he seemed to be speaking absurdly before his sons-in-law.
Genesis 19:31And the elder said to the younger, Our father is old, and there is no one on the earth who shall come in to us, as it is fit in all the earth.
Proverbs 1:19These are the ways of all that perform lawless deeds; for by ungodliness they destroy their own life.
Proverbs 11:4+ 11:4 there is no verse 4. The Alexandrine text has this. Possessions will not profit in a day of wrath, but righteousness will deliver from death.
Proverbs 23:4If you are poor, measure not yourself with a rich man; but refrain yourself in your 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 →