Ecclesiastes 5:13 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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

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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.

Ecclesiastes 5:13 Krydshenvisninger

Genesis 14:16

Then he brought back all the goods, and also brought back his kinsman Lot with his goods, and the women and the people.

Genesis 19:14

So Lot went out and said to his sons-in-law, who were to marry his daughters, “Up, get out of this place; for the Lord is about to destroy the city.” But he seemed to his sons-in-law to be jesting.

Genesis 19:26

But Lot's wife behind him looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.

Job 20:20

“Because his greed knew no rest, he will not save anything in which he delights.

Proverbs 1:19

Such are the ways of all who get gain by violence; it takes away the life of its possessors.

Proverbs 1:32

For the simple are killed by their turning away, and the complacence 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 toil to acquire wealth; be wise enough to desist.

Proverbs 27:24

for riches do not last for ever; and does a crown endure to all generations?

Ecclesiastes 4:8

a person who has no one, either son or brother, yet there is no end to all his toil, and his eyes are never satisfied with riches, so that he never asks, “For whom am I toiling and depriving myself of pleasure?” This also is vanity and an unhappy business.

Ecclesiastes 5:14

and those riches were lost in a bad venture; and he is father of a son, but he has nothing in his hand.

Ecclesiastes 8:9

All this I observed while applying my mind to all that is done under the sun, while man lords it over man to his hurt.

Isaiah 2:20

In that day men will cast forth their idols of silver and their idols of gold, which they made for themselves to worship, to the moles and to the bats,

Zephaniah 1:18

Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them on the day of the wrath of the Lord. In the fire of his jealous wrath, all the earth shall be consumed; for a full, yea, sudden end he will make of all the inhabitants of the earth.

Luke 16:19

“There was a rich man, who was clothed in purple and fine linen and who feasted sumptuously every day.

Luke 19:8

And Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord, “Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor; and if I have defrauded any one of anything, I restore it fourfold.”