Ecclesiastes 5:13 - The Scriptures 2009

¹³ There is a sickly evil I have seen under the sun: riches kept for their owner, for his evil.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹³ There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹³ There is a serious and severe evil which I have seen under the sun: riches were kept by their owner to his hurt.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹³ There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept by the owner thereof to his hurt:

Common English Bible

¹³ I have seen a sickening tragedy under the sun: people hoard their wealth to their own detriment.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹³ For they are lost in a most grievous affliction. He has produced a son, who will be in the utmost destitution.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹³ For they are lost with very great affliction: he hath begotten a son, who shall be in extremity of want.

Ecclesiastes 5:13 Cross References

Genesis 14:16

So he brought back all the goods, and also brought back his brother Lot and his goods, as well as the women and the people.

Genesis 19:14

And Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, who had married his daughters, and said, “Get up, get out of this place, for יהוה is going to destroy this city!” But to his sons-in-law he seemed to be as one joking.

Genesis 19:26

But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a post of salt.

Job 20:20

For he shall not know ease in his innermost, neither save what he desires.

Proverbs 1:19

Such are the ways of everyone greedy for gain; It takes away the life of its owners.

Proverbs 1:32

“For the turning away of the simple kills them, And the complacency of fools destroys them.

Proverbs 11:4

Riches do not profit in the day of wrath, But righteousness delivers from death.

Proverbs 23:4

Do not labour to be rich. Cease from your own understanding!

Proverbs 27:24

For riches are not forever, Nor a diadem to all generations.

Ecclesiastes 4:8

There is one, without a second, who has neither son nor brother. And there is no end to all his labours. His eye also is not satisfied with riches. “And for whom am I toiling and depriving myself of good?” That too is futility, and an evil task.

Ecclesiastes 5:14

But those riches perish through evil use. And he brings forth a son, and there is naught in his hand.

Ecclesiastes 8:9

All this I have seen; I applied my heart to every work that is done under the sun: There is a time in which a man rules over a man for his evil.

Isaiah 2:20

In that day man shall throw away his idols of silver and his idols of gold, which they made, each for himself to worship, to the moles and bats,

Zephaniah 1:18

Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of יהוה. And by the fire of His jealousy all the earth shall be consumed, for He makes a sudden end of all those who dwell in the earth.

Luke 16:19

“But there was a certain rich man who used to dress in purple and fine linen and lived luxuriously every day.

Luke 19:8

But Zakkai stood up and said to the Master, “Look, Master, I give half of my possessions to the poor. And if I have taken whatever from anyone by false accusation, I repay fourfold.”