Ecclesiastes 5:14

Modern King James Version

But those riches perish by evil use. And he brings forth a son, and nothing is in his hand.

Cross References

Haggai 1:9

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

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 labor, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him who is good before God. This also is vanity and vexation of spirit.

Proverbs 23:5

Will your eyes fly on it? And it is gone! For surely it makes wings for itself; it flies into the heavens like an eagle.

Psalm 39:6

Surely a man walks about like a shadow! Surely they are in an uproar in vain. He heaps up, and does not know who shall gather them.

Job 5:5

Their harvest the hungry eats, and takes it even out of the thorns; and the snare swallows up their wealth.

1 Kings 14:26

And he took away the treasures of the house of Jehovah, and the treasures of the king's house. He took all away. And he took away all the shields of gold which Solomon had made.

1 Samuel 2:36

And it shall be that everyone who is left in your house shall come and bow down to him for a piece of silver and a piece of bread. And they shall say, Please put me into one of the priests' offices so that I may eat a piece of bread.

Ecclesiastes 5:13

There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept for their owners to their hurt.

Ecclesiastes 5:15

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

Job 1:21

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

Psalm 49:18

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