Ecclesiastes 5:11

Hebrew Names version (HNV)

When goods increase, those who eat them are increased; and what advantage is there to its owner, except to feast on them with his eyes?

Cross References

Genesis 12:16

He dealt well with Avram for her sake. He had sheep, oxen, male donkeys, male servants, female servants, female donkeys, and camels.

Genesis 13:2

Avram was very rich in livestock, in silver, and in gold.

Proverbs 23:5

Why do you set your eyes on that which is not? For it certainly sprouts wings like an eagle and flies in the sky.

Ecclesiastes 11:9

Rejoice, young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth, and walk in the ways of your heart, and in the sight of your eyes; but know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.

Ecclesiastes 2:9

So I was great, and increased more than all who were before me in Yerushalayim. My wisdom also remained with me.

Ecclesiastes 5:12

The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eats little or much; but the abundance of the rich will not allow him to sleep.

Ecclesiastes 6:9

Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.

Jeremiah 17:11

As the partridge that sits on [eggs] which she has not laid, so is he who gets riches, and not by right; in the midst of his days they shall leave him, and at his end he shall be a fool.

Habakkuk 2:13

Behold, isn't it of the LORD of Armies that the peoples labor for the fire, and the nations weary themselves for vanity?

1 John 2:16

For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, isn't the Father's, but is the world's.