Ecclesiastes 5:11

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

When goods increase, those who eat them increase, and what gain has their owner but to see them with his eyes?

Cross References

Genesis 12:16

And for her sake he dealt well with Abram, and he had sheep, oxen, male donkeys, male and female slaves, female donkeys, and camels.

Genesis 13:2

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

Proverbs 23:5

When your eyes light upon it, it is gone, for suddenly it takes wings to itself, flying like an eagle toward heaven.

Ecclesiastes 11:9

Rejoice, young man, while you are young, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth. Follow the inclination of your heart and the desire of your eyes, but know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.

Ecclesiastes 2:9

So I became great and surpassed all who were before me in Jerusalem; also my wisdom remained with me.

Ecclesiastes 5:12

Sweet is the sleep of laborers, whether they eat little or much, but the abundance of the rich will not let them sleep.

Ecclesiastes 6:9

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

Jeremiah 17:11

Like the partridge hatching what it did not lay, so are all who amass wealth unjustly; in midlife it will leave them, and at their end they will prove to be fools.

Habakkuk 2:13

Is it not from the Lord of hosts that peoples labor only to feed the flames and nations weary themselves for nothing?

1 John 2:16

for all that is in the world—the desire of the flesh, the desire of the eyes, the pride in riches—comes not from the Father but from the world.