Ecclesiastes 5:13 - King James 2000

¹³ There is a great evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept by their owners to their hurt.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹³ There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹³ There is a serious and severe evil which I have seen under the sun: riches were kept by their owner to his hurt.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹³ There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept by the owner thereof to his hurt:

Common English Bible

¹³ I have seen a sickening tragedy under the sun: people hoard their wealth to their own detriment.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹³ For they are lost in a most grievous affliction. He has produced a son, who will be in the utmost destitution.

Ecclesiastes 5:13 Tagairtí Cros

Genesis 14:16

And he brought back all the goods, and also brought again his brother Lot, and his goods, and the women also, and the people.

Genesis 19:14

And Lot went out, and spoke unto his sons-in-law, who married his daughters, and said, Up, get you out of this place; for the LORD will destroy this city. But he seemed as one that mocked unto his sons-in-law.

Genesis 19:26

But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.

Job 20:20

Surely he shall not feel quietness in his heart, he shall not save of that which he desired.

Proverbs 1:19

So are the ways of everyone that is greedy of gain; which takes away the life of its owners.

Proverbs 1:32

For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.

Proverbs 11:4

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

Proverbs 23:4

Labor not to be rich: cease from your own wisdom.

Proverbs 27:24

For riches are not forever: and does the crown endure to every generation?

Ecclesiastes 4:8

There is one alone, and there is not a second; yea, he has neither child nor brother: yet is there no end of all his labor; neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither says he, For whom do I labor, and deprive my soul of good? This is also vanity, yea, it is a heavy travail.

Ecclesiastes 5:14

But those riches are lost by a bad venture: when he begets a son, there is nothing in his hand.

Ecclesiastes 8:9

All this have I seen, and applied my heart unto every work that is done under the sun: there is a time in which one man rules over another to his own hurt.

Isaiah 2:20

In that day a man shall cast away his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made, each for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats;

Zephaniah 1:18

Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD'S wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.

Luke 16:19

There was a certain rich man, who was clothed in purple and fine linen, and feasted sumptuously every day:

Luke 19:8

And Zacchaeus stood, and said unto the Lord; Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor; and if I have taken anything from any man by false accusation, I restore him fourfold.