Ecclesiastes 5:14

King James 3 - The Literal Traslation

but those riches perish by an evil task; and he fathers a son, and not anything is in his hand.

Cross References

1 Kings 14:26

And he took the treasures of the house of Jehovah, and the treasures of the king’s house; yea, he took all. And he took all the shields of gold that Solomon had made.

Job 1:21

And he said, I came naked out of my mother’s womb, and naked I shall return there. Jehovah gave, and Jehovah has taken away. Blessed be the name of Jehovah.

Job 5:5

The hungry eat his harvest, and they take him to the thorns, and the snare crushes up their strength.

Psalm 39:6

Surely a man walks about in shadow; surely they are in an uproar in vain; he heaps up and does not know who is gathering them.

Psalm 49:18

For in his life he blessed his soul; yea, men praise you when you do well for yourself.

Proverbs 23:5

Will your eyes fly on it? And it is not! For making it makes wings for itself; it flies into the heavens like an eagle.

Ecclesiastes 2:26

For God gives wisdom, and knowledge and joy to a man who is good in His sight. But to the sinner He gives the task of gathering and to heap up, to give to him who is good before God. This also is vanity and striving after wind.

Ecclesiastes 5:13

There is an evil thing which I have seen under the sun, which makes one to be sick: riches being kept for its owner to his evil;

Ecclesiastes 5:15

As he came forth from his mother’s womb naked, he shall return to go as he came. And from his toil he may not carry anything that may go in his hand.

Haggai 1:9

You looked for much, and, behold, little! And when you brought it home, then I blew on it. Why, a statement of Jehovah of Hosts? Because of My house that is ruined, and you, each man, run to his own house.

1 Samuel 2:36

And it shall be, everyone who is left in your house shall come in to bow to him for a wage of silver and a loaf of bread. And they shall say, Please admit me into one of the priest’s offices to eat a bit of bread.