Ecclesiastes 5:13
There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun, namely , riches kept for the owners of them to their hurt.
Webster Bible
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In Context
14But those riches perish by evil labor: and he begetteth a son, and there is nothing in his hand.
Cross References
Genesis 13:5And Lot also, who went with Abram, had flocks, and herds, and tents.
Genesis 19:14And Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, who married his daughters, and said, Arise, depart from this place; for the LORD will destroy this city: but he seemed to his sons-in-law as one that mocked.
Genesis 19:31And the first-born said to the younger, Our father is old, and there is not a man on the earth to come in to us after the manner of all the earth:
Proverbs 1:19So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; who taketh away the life of its owners.
Proverbs 11:4Riches profit not in the day of wrath: but righteousness delivereth from death.
Proverbs 23:4Labor not to be rich: cease from thy own 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 →