Ecclesiastes 5:13
There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun: wealth kept by its owner to his harm.
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In Context
14Those riches perish by misfortune, and if he has fathered a son, there is nothing in his hand.
Cross References
Genesis 13:5Lot also, who went with Abram, had flocks, herds, and tents.
Genesis 19:14Lot went out, and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were pledged to marry his daughters, and said, “Get up! Get out of this place, for the LORD will destroy the city!” But he seemed to his sons-in-law to be joking.
Genesis 19:31The firstborn said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is not a man on the earth to come in to us in the way of all the earth.
Proverbs 1:19So are the ways of everyone who is greedy for gain. It takes away the life of its owners.
Proverbs 11:4Riches don’t profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death.
Proverbs 23:4Don’t weary yourself to be rich. In your wisdom, show restraint.
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 →