Ecclesiastes 5:12

Bible in Basic English (1941)

There is a great evil which I have seen under the sun--wealth kept by the owner to be his downfall.

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Referenced Verses

  • Prov 3:24 : 24 When you take your rest you will have no fear, and on your bed sleep will be sweet to you.
  • Jer 31:26 : 26 At this, awaking from my sleep, I saw; and my sleep was sweet to me.
  • Ps 4:8 : 8 I will take my rest on my bed in peace, because you only, Lord, keep me safe.
  • Ps 127:2 : 2 It is of no use for you to get up early, and to go late to your rest, with the bread of sorrow for your food; for the Lord gives to his loved ones in sleep.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Eccl 5:13-14
    2 verses
    80%

    13And I saw the destruction of his wealth by an evil chance; and when he became the father of a son he had nothing in his hand.

    14As he came from his mother at birth, so does he go again; he gets from his work no reward which he may take away in his hand.

  • Eccl 5:9-11
    3 verses
    79%

    9He who has a love for silver never has enough silver, or he who has love for wealth, enough profit. This again is to no purpose.

    10When goods are increased, the number of those who take of them is increased; and what profit has the owner but to see them?

    11The sleep of a working man is sweet, if he has little food or much; but to him who is full, sleep will not come.

  • Prov 20:13
    78%

    13Do not be a lover of sleep, or you will become poor: keep your eyes open, and you will have bread enough.

  • Ps 127:2
    78%

    2It is of no use for you to get up early, and to go late to your rest, with the bread of sorrow for your food; for the Lord gives to his loved ones in sleep.

  • Prov 24:33-34
    2 verses
    77%

    33A little sleep, a little rest, a little folding of the hands in sleep:

    34So loss will come on you like an outlaw, and your need like an armed man.

  • Prov 6:9-11
    3 verses
    76%

    9How long will you be sleeping, O hater of work? when will you get up from your sleep?

    10A little sleep, a little rest, a little folding of the hands in sleep:

    11Then loss will come on you like an outlaw, and your need like an armed man

  • Prov 19:15
    75%

    15Hate of work sends deep sleep on a man: and he who has no industry will go without food.

  • Eccl 6:2
    74%

    2A man to whom God gives money, wealth, and honour so that he has all his desires but God does not give him the power to have joy of it, and a strange man takes it. This is to no purpose and an evil disease.

  • Job 27:19
    73%

    19He goes to rest full of wealth, but does so for the last time: on opening his eyes, he sees it there no longer.

  • Eccl 6:7
    73%

    7All the work of man is for his mouth, and still he has a desire for food.

  • Eccl 5:17-19
    3 verses
    73%

    17This is what I have seen: it is good and fair for a man to take meat and drink and to have joy in all his work under the sun, all the days of his life which God has given him; that is his reward.

    18Every man to whom God has given money and wealth and the power to have pleasure in it and to do his part and have joy in his work: this is given by God.

    19He will not give much thought to the days of his life; because God lets him be taken up with the joy of his heart.

  • Eccl 8:16
    72%

    16When I gave my mind to the knowledge of wisdom and to seeing the business which is done on the earth (and there are those whose eyes see not sleep by day or by night),

  • Eccl 2:23-25
    3 verses
    72%

    23All his days are sorrow, and his work is full of grief. Even in the night his heart has no rest. This again is to no purpose.

    24There is nothing better for a man than taking meat and drink, and having delight in his work. This again I saw was from the hand of God.

    25Who may take food or have pleasure without him?

  • Jer 31:26
    72%

    26At this, awaking from my sleep, I saw; and my sleep was sweet to me.

  • Eccl 4:6
    72%

    6One hand full of rest is better than two hands full of trouble and desire for wind.

  • Prov 13:11
    72%

    11Wealth quickly got will become less; but he who gets a store by the work of his hands will have it increased.

  • Prov 10:4
    72%

    4He who is slow in his work becomes poor, but the hand of the ready worker gets in wealth.

  • Job 33:15
    71%

    15In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep comes on men, while they take their rest on their beds;

  • Prov 16:26
    71%

    26The desire of the working man is working for him, for his need of food is driving him on.

  • Prov 22:16
    71%

    16He who is cruel to the poor for the purpose of increasing his profit, and he who gives to the man of wealth, will only come to be in need.

  • Prov 3:24
    71%

    24When you take your rest you will have no fear, and on your bed sleep will be sweet to you.

  • Prov 13:7
    71%

    7A man may be acting as if he had wealth, but have nothing; another may seem poor, but have great wealth.

  • Prov 4:16
    71%

    16For they take no rest till they have done evil; their sleep is taken away if they have not been the cause of someone's fall.

  • Eccl 6:5
    71%

    5Yes, it saw not the sun, and it had no knowledge; it is better with this than with the other.

  • Job 20:18
    71%

    18He is forced to give back the fruit of his work, and may not take it for food; he has no joy in the profit of his trading.

  • Prov 6:4
    71%

    4Give no sleep to your eyes, or rest to them;

  • Prov 23:4
    71%

    4Take no care to get wealth; let there be an end to your desire for money.

  • Prov 13:23
    71%

    23There is much food in the ploughed land of the poor; but it is taken away by wrongdoing.

  • Prov 28:19
    70%

    19By ploughing his land a man will have bread in full measure; but he who goes after good-for-nothing persons will be poor enough.

  • Eccl 2:21
    70%

    21Because there is a man whose work has been done with wisdom, with knowledge, and with an expert hand; but one who has done nothing for it will have it for his heritage. This again is to no purpose and a great evil.

  • Prov 13:4
    70%

    4The hater of work does not get his desires, but the soul of the hard workers will be made fat.

  • Deut 24:12
    70%

    12If he is a poor man, do not keep his property all night;

  • Job 4:13
    70%

    13In troubled thoughts from visions of the night, when deep sleep comes on men,

  • Prov 28:22
    70%

    22He who is ever desiring wealth goes running after money, and does not see that need will come on him.

  • Ps 37:16
    70%

    16The little which the good man has is better than the wealth of evil-doers.

  • Prov 10:15
    70%

    15The property of the man of wealth is his strong town: the poor man's need is his destruction.