Ecclesiastes 5:13

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

I have seen something terribly unfair. People get rich, but it does them no good.

Cross References

Genesis 14:16

and Abram went after them. He brought back his nephew Lot, together with Lot's possessions and the women and everyone else who had been captured.

Genesis 19:14

Lot went to the men who were engaged to his daughters and said, “Hurry and get out of here! The LORD is going to destroy this city.” But they thought he was joking, and they laughed at him.

Genesis 19:26

On the way, Lot's wife looked back and was turned into a block of salt.

Job 20:20

Greedy people want everything and are never satisfied.

Proverbs 1:19

The wealth you get from crime robs you of your life.

Proverbs 1:32

Sin and self-satisfaction bring destruction and death to stupid fools.

Proverbs 11:4

When God is angry, money won't help you. Obeying God is the only way to be saved from death.

Proverbs 23:4

Give up trying so hard to get rich.

Proverbs 27:24

because wealth and honour don't last for ever.

Ecclesiastes 4:8

For example, some people don't have friends or family. But they are never satisfied with what they own, and they never stop working to get more. They should ask themselves, “Why am I always working to have more? Who will get what I leave behind?” What a senseless and miserable life!

Ecclesiastes 5:14

Suddenly they lose everything in a bad business deal, then have nothing to leave for their children.

Ecclesiastes 8:9

I noticed all this and thought seriously about what goes on in the world. Why does one person have the power to hurt another?

Isaiah 2:20

On that day everyone will throw to the rats and bats their idols of silver and gold they made to worship.

Zephaniah 1:18

Not even your silver or gold can save you on that day when I, the LORD, am angry. My anger will flare up like a furious fire scorching the earth and everyone on it.”

Luke 16:19

There was once a rich man who wore expensive clothes and every day ate the best food.

Luke 19:8

Later that day Zacchaeus stood up and said to the Lord, “I will give half of my property to the poor. And I will now pay back four times as much to everyone I have ever cheated.”