Ecclesiastes 5:13

English Standard Version 2016

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

Cross References

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.

Luke 16:19

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

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 jealousy, all the earth shall be consumed; for a full and sudden end he will make of all the inhabitants of the earth.

Ecclesiastes 8:9

All this I observed while applying my heart to all that is done under the sun, when man had power over man to his hurt.

Ecclesiastes 4:8

one person who has no other, 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.

Proverbs 11:4

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

Proverbs 1:32

For the simple are killed by their turning away, and the complacency of fools destroys them;

Proverbs 1:19

Such are the ways of everyone who is greedy for unjust gain; it takes away the life of its possessors.

Genesis 14:16

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

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 anyone of anything, I restore it fourfold.”

Isaiah 2:20

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

Genesis 19:26

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

Job 20:20

“Because he knew no contentment in his belly, he will not let anything in which he delights escape him.

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.

Proverbs 23:4

Do not toil to acquire wealth; be discerning enough to desist.

Proverbs 27:24

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