Ecclesiastes 5:14

Tree of Life Version

As he came from his mother’s womb, naked he will return as he came. He takes nothing from his labor that he can carry in his hand.

Cross References

1 Kings 14:26

He took away the treasures of the House of Adonai and the treasures of the royal palace. He took away everything—even taking all the golden shields that Solomon had made.

Job 1:21

Then he said: “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked I will return there. Adonai gave and Adonai has taken away; blessed be the Name of Adonai.”

Job 5:5

The hungry consumes his harvest, taking it even from among thorns, and the thirsty pants after their wealth.

Psalm 39:6

Behold, You made my days mere hand-breadths, and my lifetime as nothing before You. Surely all humanity is but vapor. Selah

Psalm 49:18

For when he dies he takes nothing away. His splendor will not follow him down.

Proverbs 23:5

When you cast your eyes 0n riches, it is gone; for it surely sprouts wings and flies off into the sky like an eagle.

Ecclesiastes 2:26

For to the one who pleases Him, He gives wisdom, knowledge and joy, but to the sinner He gives the task of gathering and accumulating wealth to give it to one who pleases God. This also is only vapor and striving after the wind.

Ecclesiastes 5:13

or wealth lost in a bad investment, and when he fathers a son, there is nothing in his hand.

Ecclesiastes 5:15

This too is a grievous wrong. Just as he came, so will he go, so what does he gain, from his toiling for the wind?

Haggai 1:9

“You have looked for much, but indeed, there is little. What you have brought home, I have blown away. Why is this?”—it is a declaration of Adonai-Tzva’ot—“because My House lies in ruins, while you are running, each to his own house.

1 Samuel 2:36

Anyone left in your household will come and bow low to him for a piece of silver and a loaf of bread, and will say: ‘Please, assign me to one of the priestly offices so that I may eat a morsel of bread.’”