Ecclesiastes 5:11

Wycliffe's Bible with Modern Spelling

Where there be many riches, also many men there be, that eat those; and what profiteth it to the holder, but that he seeth [the] riches with his eyes?

Cross References

Genesis 12:16

Forsooth they used well Abram for her; and sheep, and oxen, and asses, and servants, and servantesses, and she-asses, and camels were given to him.

Genesis 13:2

Forsooth he was full rich in possessions of silver, and of gold.

Proverbs 23:5

Raise not thine eyes to riches, which thou mayest not have; for those [or they] shall make to them-selves pens or wings, as of an eagle, and they shall fly into heaven.

Ecclesiastes 11:9

Therefore, thou young man, be glad in thy youth, and thine heart be in goodness in the days of thy youth, and go thou in the ways of thine heart, and in the beholding of thine eyes; and know thou, that for all these things God shall bring thee into doom.

Ecclesiastes 2:9

and I passed in riches all men that were before me in Jerusalem. Also wisdom dwelled stably with me,

Ecclesiastes 5:12

Sleep is sweet to him that worketh, whether he eat little either much; but the fullness of a rich man suffereth not him to sleep.

Ecclesiastes 6:9

It is better to see that, that thou covetest, than to desire that, that thou knowest not; but also this is vanity, and presumption of spirit.

Jeremiah 17:11

A partridge nourished those things which she breeded not; he made riches, and not in doom; in the midst of his days he shall forsake them, and in his last time he shall be unwise.

Habakkuk 2:13

Whether not these things be of the Lord of hosts? For peoples shall travail in much fire, and folks in vain, and they shall fail.

1 John 2:16

For all thing that is in the world, is covetousness of flesh, and covetousness of eyes, and pride of life, which is not of the Father, but it is of the world.