Then he brought back all the goods and also brought back his nephew Lot with his goods and the women and the people.
Ecclesiastes 5:13 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021 There is a grievous ill that I have seen under the sun: riches were kept by their owners to their hurt, More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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 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) 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 I have seen a sickening tragedy under the sun: people hoard their wealth to their own detriment. Catholic Public Domain Version 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 For they are lost with very great affliction: he hath begotten a son, who shall be in extremity of want. |
Then he brought back all the goods and also brought back his nephew Lot with his goods and the women and the people.
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.
But Lot’s wife, behind him, looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.
“For they knew no quiet in their bellies; in their greed they let nothing escape.
Such is the end of all who are greedy for gain; it takes away the life of its possessors.
For waywardness kills the simple, and the complacency of fools destroys them;
Riches do not profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death.
the case of solitary individuals, without sons or brothers; yet there is no end to all their toil, and their eyes are never satisfied with riches. “For whom am I toiling,” they ask, “and depriving myself of pleasure?” This also is vanity and an unhappy business.
and those riches were lost in a bad venture; though they are parents of children, they have nothing in their hands.
All this I observed, applying my mind to all that is done under the sun, while one person exercises authority over another to the other’s hurt.
On that day people will throw away to the moles and to the bats their idols of silver and their idols of gold, which they made for themselves to worship,
Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to save them on the day of the Lord’s wrath; in the fire of his passion the whole earth shall be consumed, for a full, a terrible end he will make of all the inhabitants of the earth.
“There was a rich man who was dressed in purple and fine linen and who feasted sumptuously every day.
Zacchaeus stood there and said to the Lord, “Look, half of my possessions, Lord, I will give to the poor, and if I have defrauded anyone of anything, I will pay back four times as much.”