Ecclesiastes 5:13
Here was an incurable evil, I had seen under the sun, riches kept by the owner thereof, to his hurt;
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Genesis 13:5Now, Lot also, who was going with Abram, had flocks and herds and tents.
Genesis 19:14And Lot went forth and spake unto his sons-in-law who were about to take his two daughters and said Arise come forth out of this place, for Yahweh is about to destroy the city. And it came to pass, that he was as one that laughed, in the eyes of his sons-in-law.
Genesis 19:31And the firstborn said unto the younger. Our father is old,—and, a man, there is not in the earth to come in unto us, after the way of all the earth.
Proverbs 1:19Such are the ways of every one that graspeth with greed, The life of the owners thereof, it taketh away!
Proverbs 11:4Wealth, shall not profit, in the day of wrath, but, righteousness, shall deliver from death.
Proverbs 23:4Do not toil to get wealth, of thine own understanding, forbear:
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 →