Ecclesiastes 5:11
In the multiplying of good have its consumers been multiplied, and what benefit [is] to its possessor except the sight of his eyes?
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Genesis 12:16and to Abram he hath done good because of her, and he hath sheep and oxen, and he-asses, and men-servants, and handmaids, and she-asses, and camels.
Genesis 13:5And also to Lot, who is going with Abram, there hath been sheep and oxen and tents;
1 Kings 4:22And the provision of Solomon for one day is thirty cors of flour, and sixty cors of meal;
Nehemiah 5:17and of the Jews, and of the prefects, a hundred and fifty men, and those coming in unto us of the nations that [are] round about us, [are] at my table;
Proverbs 23:5For wealth maketh to itself wings, As an eagle it flieth to the heavens.
Ecclesiastes 11:9Rejoice, O young man, in thy childhood, And let thy heart gladden thee in days of thy youth, And walk in the ways of thy heart, And in the sight of thine eyes, And know thou that for all these, Doth God bring thee into judgment.
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 →