Ecclesiastes 5:14
or wealth lost in a failed venture, so when that man has a son there is nothing to pass on.
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
But those riches perish by evil travail: and he begetteth a son, and there is nothing in his hand.
In Context
13There is a grievous evil I have seen under the sun: wealth hoarded to the harm of its owner,
Cross References
1 Samuel 2:36And everyone left in your house will come and bow down to him for a piece of silver or a morsel of bread, pleading, “Please appoint me to some priestly office so that I can eat a piece of bread.”’”
Job 1:21saying: “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked I will return. The LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away. Blessed be the name of the LORD.”
Job 20:15He swallows wealth but vomits it out; God will force it from his stomach.
Psalms 39:6Surely every man goes about like a phantom; surely he bustles in vain; he heaps up riches not knowing who will haul them away.
Psalms 109:9May his children be fatherless and his wife a widow.
Ecclesiastes 2:26To the man who is pleasing in His sight, He gives wisdom and knowledge and joy, but to the sinner He assigns the task of gathering and accumulating that which he will hand over to one who pleases God. This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind.
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 →