Ecclesiastes 5:11

New American Bible - revised edition

Sleep is sweet to the laborer, whether there is little or much to eat; but the abundance of the rich allows them no sleep.

Cross References

Genesis 12:16

Abram fared well on her account, and he acquired sheep, oxen, male and female servants, male and female donkeys, and camels.

Genesis 13:2

Now Abram was very rich in livestock, silver, and gold.

Proverbs 23:5

When your glance flits to it, it is gone! For assuredly it grows wings, like the eagle that flies toward heaven.

Ecclesiastes 11:9

Rejoice, O youth, while you are young and let your heart be glad in the days of your youth. Follow the ways of your heart, the vision of your eyes; Yet understand regarding all this that God will bring you to judgment.

Ecclesiastes 2:9

I accumulated much more than all others before me in Jerusalem; my wisdom, too, stayed with me.

Ecclesiastes 5:12

This is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun: riches hoarded by their owners to their own hurt.

Ecclesiastes 6:9

“What the eyes see is better than what the desires wander after.” This also is vanity and a chase after wind.

Jeremiah 17:11

A partridge that broods but does not hatch are those who acquire wealth unjustly: In midlife it will desert them; in the end they are only fools.

Habakkuk 2:13

Is this not from the Lord of hosts: peoples toil for what the flames consume, and nations grow weary for nothing!

1 John 2:16

For all that is in the world, sensual lust, enticement for the eyes, and a pretentious life, is not from the Father but is from the world.