Ecclesiastes 5:13
There is a painful evil I have seen under the sun: wealth kept for its possessor, for his evil.
Young's Literal Translation
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Genesis 13:5And also to Lot, who is going with Abram, there hath been sheep and oxen and tents;
Genesis 19:14And Lot goeth out, and speaketh unto his sons-in-law, those taking his daughters, and saith, 'Rise, go out from this place, for Jehovah is destroying the city;' and he is as [one] mocking in the eyes of his sons-in-law.
Genesis 19:31And the first-born saith unto the younger, 'Our father [is] old, and a man there is not in the earth to come in unto us, as [is] the way of all the earth;
Proverbs 1:19So [are] the paths of every gainer of dishonest gain, The life of its owners it taketh.
Proverbs 11:4Wealth profiteth not in a day of wrath, And righteousness delivereth from death.
Proverbs 23:4Labour not to make wealth, From thine own understanding cease, Dost thou cause thine eyes to fly upon it? Then it is not.
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 →