Ecclesiastes 5:13
And these riches perish by euill trauel, and he begetteth a sonne, and in his hand is nothing.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
In Context
Cross References
Genesis 13:5And Lot also, who went with Abram, had sheepe, and cattell and tentes,
Genesis 19:14Then Lot went out and spake vnto his sonnes in lawe, which maried his daughters, and said, Arise, get you out of this place: for the Lord will destroy the citie: but he seemed to his sonnes in lawe as though he had mocked.
Genesis 19:31And the elder saide vnto the yonger, Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth, to come in vnto vs after the maner of all ye earth.
Proverbs 1:19Such are the wayes of euery one that is greedy of gaine: he would take away the life of the owners thereof.
Proverbs 11:4Riches auaile not in the day of wrath: but righteousnes deliuereth from death.
Proverbs 23:4Trauaile not too much to be rich: but cease from thy wisdome.
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 →