Ecclesiastes 5:13

Hebrew Names version (HNV)

There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun: wealth kept by its owner to his harm.

Cross References

Genesis 14:16

He brought back all the goods, and also brought back his relative, Lot, and his goods, and the women also, and the people.

Genesis 19:14

Lot went out, and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were pledged to marry his daughters, and said, *Get up! Get out of this place, for the LORD will destroy the city.* But he seemed to his sons-in-law to be joking.

Genesis 19:26

But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.

Job 20:20

*Because he knew no quietness within him, he shall not save anything of that in which he delights.

Proverbs 1:19

So are the ways of everyone who is greedy for gain. It takes away the life of its owners.

Proverbs 1:32

For the backsliding of the simple will kill them. The careless ease of fools will destroy them.

Proverbs 11:4

Riches don't profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death.

Proverbs 23:4

Don't weary yourself to be rich. In your wisdom, show restraint.

Proverbs 27:24

for riches are not forever, nor does even the crown endure to all generations.

Ecclesiastes 4:8

There is one who is alone, and he has neither son nor brother. There is no end to all of his labor, neither are his eyes satisfied with wealth. For whom then, do I labor, and deprive my soul of enjoyment? This also is vanity, yes, it is a miserable business.

Ecclesiastes 5:14

Those riches perish by misfortune, and if he has fathered a son, there is nothing in his hand.

Ecclesiastes 8:9

All this have I seen, and applied my mind to every work that is done under the sun. There is a time in which one man has power over another to his hurt.

Isaiah 2:20

In that day, men shall cast away their idols of silver, and their idols of gold, which have been made for themselves to worship, to the moles and to the bats;

Zephaniah 1:18

Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD's wrath, but the whole land will be devoured by the fire of his jealousy; for he will make an end, yes, a terrible end, of all those who dwell in the land.

Luke 16:19

*Now there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, living in luxury every day.

Luke 19:8

Zakkai stood and said to the Lord, *Behold, Lord, half of my goods I give to the poor. If I have wrongfully exacted anything of anyone, I restore four times as much.*