Ecclesiastes 5:14

A Conservative Version

And those riches perish in a bad venture. And if he has begotten a son, there is nothing in his hand.

Cross References

Haggai 1:9

Ye looked for much, and, lo, it came to little, and when ye brought it home, I blew upon it. Why? says LORD of hosts. Because of my house that lays waste while ye run each man to his own house.

Ecclesiastes 2:26

For to the man who pleases him [God] gives wisdom and knowledge and joy, but to the sinner he gives travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him who pleases God. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.

Proverbs 23:5

Will thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? For it certainly makes itself wings, like an eagle that flies toward heaven.

Psalm 39:6

Surely every man walks in a shadow. Surely they are disquieted in vain. He heaps up, and knows not who shall gather them.

Job 5:5

whose harvest the hungry eat up, and takes it even out of the thorns, and the snare gapes for their substance.

1 Kings 14:26

And he took away the treasures of the house of LORD, and the treasures of the king's house. He even took away all. And he took away all the shields of gold which Solomon had made.

1 Samuel 2:36

And it shall come to pass, that everyone who is left in thy house shall come and bow down to him for a piece of silver and a loaf of bread, and shall say, Put me, I pray thee, into one of the priests' offices that I may eat a morse

Ecclesiastes 5:13

There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun: Riches [were] kept by the owner of it to his hurt.

Ecclesiastes 5:15

As he came forth from his mother's womb, naked shall he go again as he came, and shall take nothing for his labor, which he may carry away in his hand.

Job 1:21

And he said, Naked I came out of my mother's womb, and naked I shall return there. LORD gave, and LORD has taken away, blessed be the name of LORD.

Psalm 49:18

Though while he lived he blessed his soul (and men praise thee, when thou do well for thyself),