Ecclesiastes 5:13

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

There is a grievous ill that I have seen under the sun: riches were kept by their owners to their hurt,

Cross References

Genesis 14:16

Then he brought back all the goods and also brought back his nephew Lot with his goods and the women and the people.

Genesis 19:14

So Lot went out and said to his sons-in-law, who were to marry his daughters, “Up, get out of this place, for the Lord is about to destroy the city.” But he seemed to his sons-in-law to be jesting.

Genesis 19:26

But Lot’s wife, behind him, looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.

Job 20:20

“For they knew no quiet in their bellies; in their greed they let nothing escape.

Proverbs 1:19

Such is the end of all who are greedy for gain; it takes away the life of its possessors.

Proverbs 1:32

For waywardness kills the simple, and the complacency of fools destroys them;

Proverbs 11:4

Riches do not profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death.

Proverbs 23:4

Do not wear yourself out to get rich; be wise enough to desist.

Proverbs 27:24

for riches do not last forever, nor a crown for all generations.

Ecclesiastes 4:8

the case of solitary individuals, without sons or brothers; yet there is no end to all their toil, and their eyes are never satisfied with riches. “For whom am I toiling,” they ask, “and depriving myself of pleasure?” This also is vanity and an unhappy business.

Ecclesiastes 5:14

and those riches were lost in a bad venture; though they are parents of children, they have nothing in their hands.

Ecclesiastes 8:9

All this I observed, applying my mind to all that is done under the sun, while one person exercises authority over another to the other’s hurt.

Isaiah 2:20

On that day people will throw away to the moles and to the bats their idols of silver and their idols of gold, which they made for themselves to worship,

Zephaniah 1:18

Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to save them on the day of the Lord’s wrath; in the fire of his passion the whole earth shall be consumed, for a full, a terrible end he will make of all the inhabitants of the earth.

Luke 16:19

“There was a rich man who was dressed in purple and fine linen and who feasted sumptuously every day.

Luke 19:8

Zacchaeus stood there and said to the Lord, “Look, half of my possessions, Lord, I will give to the poor, and if I have defrauded anyone of anything, I will pay back four times as much.”