Ecclesiastes 5:14

Coverdale Bible (1535)

For oft times they perishe with his greate misery and trouble: and yf he haue a childe, it getteth nothinge.

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  • 1 Sam 2:6-8 : 6 The Lorde slayeth, and geueth life: he ledeth vnto hell, and bryngeth out agayne. 7 The LORDE maketh poore and maketh riche: He bryngeth lowe and exalteth. 8 He taketh vp the neady out of the dust, and lifteth vp ye poore out of the myre, that he maye set them amonge the prynces, and to let them inheret the seate of honoure: for the foundacions and corners of the worlde are the LORDES, and he hath set the compase of the earth theron.
  • 1 Sam 2:36 : 36 And who so euer remayneth of thy house, shall come and worshipe him for a syluer peny and for a pece of bred, and shall saye: I praye the leaue me to one prestes parte, that I maye eate a morsell of bred.
  • 1 Kgs 14:26 : 26 & toke the treasure out of ye house of the LORDE, & out of the kynges house, & all that mighte be gotten, & toke all the shyldes of golde, which Salomon caused to be made.
  • Job 5:5 : 5 that his haruest was eaten vp off the hungrie: that the weapened man had spoyled it, and that the thurstie had droncke vp his riches. It is not the earth that bryngeth forth trauayle,
  • Job 20:15-29 : 15 The riches yt he deuoureth, shall he perbreake agayne, for God shal drawe them out of his bely. 16 The serpentes heade shall sucke him, and the adders tonge shall slaye him: 17 so that he shal nomore se the ryuers and brokes of hony and butter: 18 But laboure shal he, & yet haue nothinge to eate. Greate trauayle shal he make for riches, but he shal not enioye them. 19 And why? he hath oppressed the poore, and not helped them: houses hath he spoyled, and not buylded them. 20 His bely coude neuer be fylled, therfore shall he perish in his couetousnesse. 21 He deuoured so gredely, yt he left nothinge behynde, therfore his goodes shal not prospere. 22 Though he had plenteousnesse of euerythinge, yet was he poore, & therfore he is but a wretch on euery syde. 23 For though ye wicked haue neuer so moch to fyll his bely, yet God shal sende his wrath vpon him, and cause his battayll to rayne ouer him: 24 so that yf he fle the yron weapens, he shall be shott with the stele bowe. 25 The arowe shal be taken forth, & go out at his backe, and a glisteringe swearde thorow ye gall of him, feare shal come vpo him. 26 There shal no darcknes be able to hyde him. An vnkyndled fyre shal consume him, and loke what remayneth in his house, it shall be destroyed. 27 The heauen shall declare his wickednesse, & the earth shal take parte agaynst him. 28 The substaunce that he hath in his house, shalbe taken awaye and perish, in the daye of the LORDES wrath. 29 This is the porcion that ye wicked shal haue of God, and the heretage that he maye loke for of the LORDE.
  • Job 27:16-17 : 16 Though he haue as moch money as the dust of the earth, & raymet as ready as the claye, 17 he maye well prepare it: but the godly shal put it vpon him, and the innocet shal deale out the money.
  • Ps 39:6 : 6 Beholde, thou hast made my dayes a spanne longe, and my life is as it were nothinge before the. O how vayne are all men lyuynge?
  • Ps 109:9-9 : 9 Let his children be vagabundes, and begg their bred: let them seke it, as they that be destroyed. 10 Let the extorcioner cosume all that he hath, and let straungers spoyle his laboure. 11 Let there be no man to petie, ner to haue compassion vpon his fatherlesse children. 12 Let his ende be destruccion, and in the nexte generacion let his name be clene put out.
  • Prov 23:5 : 5 Why wilt thou set thine eye vpon ye thinge, which sodenly vanisheth awaye? For riches make them selues wynges, and take their flight like an Aegle in to ye ayre.
  • Eccl 2:26 : 26 he geueth vnto ma, what it pleaseth him: whether it be wy?dome. vnderstondinge, or gladnesse. But vnto the synner he geueth weerynes and sorow, that he maye gather and heape together ye thinge, yt afterwarde shalbe geuen vnto him whom it pleaseth God. This is now a vayne thinge, yee a very disquietnesse and vexacio of mynde.
  • Hag 1:9 : 9 Ye loked for moch, and lo it is come to litle: & though ye brynge it home, yet do I blowe it awaye. And why so, saieth the LORDE of hoostes? Eue because that my house lyeth so waist, and ye renne euery man vnto his owne house.
  • Hag 2:16-17 : 16 that when ye came to a corne heape of xx. busshels, there were scarce ten: and that when ye came to the wyne presse for to poure out L. pottes of wyne, there were scarce xx. 17 For I smote you with heate, blastinge & hale stones in all the labours of youre hondes: yet was there none of you, that wolde turne vnto me, saieth the LORDE.
  • Matt 6:19-20 : 19 Se that ye gather you not treasure vpon the earth, where rust and mothes corrupte, and where theues breake through and steale. 20 But gather you treasure together in heauen, where nether rust nor mothes corrupte, and where theues nether breake vp nor yet steale.

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    15Like as he came naked out of his mothers wombe, so goeth he thither agayne, and carieth nothinge awaye with him of all his laboure.

    16This is a miserable plage, yt he shal go awaye euen as he came. What helpeth it him then, yt he hath labored in the wynde?

    17All the daies of his life also must he eate in the darcke, with greate carefulnesse, sicknesse & sorow.

  • Eccl 5:10-13
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    10He that loueth money, wil neuer be satisfied with money: and who so delyteth in riches, shal haue no profit therof. Is not this also a vayne thinge?

    11Where as many riches are, there are many also that spende them awaye. And what pleasure more hath he that possesseth them, sauynge that he maye loke vpon them with his eyes?

    12A labouringe man slepeth swetely, whether it be litle or moch that he eateth: but the abundaunce of the riche wil not suffre him to slepe.

    13Yet is there a sore plage, which I haue sene vnder the Sonne (namely) riches kepte to the hurte of him yt hath them in possession.

  • Eccl 6:1-4
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    1There is yet a plage vnder ye Sonne, & it is a generall thinge amonge me:

    2when God geueth a man riches, goodes & honoure, so that he wanteth nothinge of all that his herte can desyre: and yet God geueth him not leue to enioye the same, but another man spedeth them. This is a vayne thinge & a miserable plage.

    3Yf a man begett an hundreth children, and lyue many yeares, so that his dayes are many in nombre, and yet can not enioye his good, nether be buried: as for him I saye, that an vntymely byrth is better then he.

    4For he cometh to naught, & goeth his waye in to darcknes, and his name is forgotten.

  • Jer 17:11
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    11The disceatfull maketh a nest, but bringeth forth no yonge: He commeth by riches, but not rightuously. In the myddest off his life must he leaue them behinde him, and at the last be founde a very foole.

  • Prov 13:11
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    11Hastely gotte goodes are soone spent, but they that be gathered together with the hande, shal increase.

  • Job 15:29
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    29He shall not be rich, nether shall his substaunce continue, ner encrease vpon earth.

  • Prov 13:7
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    7Some men are riche, though they haue nothinge: agayne, some me are poore hauynge greate riches.

  • Ps 39:6
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    6Beholde, thou hast made my dayes a spanne longe, and my life is as it were nothinge before the. O how vayne are all men lyuynge?

  • Prov 10:4
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    4An ydle hande maketh poore, but a quycke laboringe hande maketh riche.

  • Job 27:19
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    19When the rich man dyeth, he carieth nothinge with him: he is gone in ye twincklynge of an eye.

  • Job 5:4-5
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    4that his children were without prosperite or health: that they were slayne in the dore, and no ma to delyuer them:

    5that his haruest was eaten vp off the hungrie: that the weapened man had spoyled it, and that the thurstie had droncke vp his riches. It is not the earth that bryngeth forth trauayle,

  • Job 20:10
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    10His childre go a begginge, their handes bringe the to sorow and heuynesse.

  • Prov 13:22-23
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    22Which their childers childre shal haue in possessio, for the riches of the synner is layed vp for ye iust.

    23There is plenteousnesse of fode in the feldes of the poore, & shalbe increased out of measure.

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    21The heretage that commeth to haistely at the first, shal not be praysed at the ende.

  • Eccl 4:8
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    8There is one man, no mo but himself alone, hauynge nether childe ner brother: yet is there no ende of his carefull trauayle, his eyes can not be satisfied with riches, (yet doth he not remembre himself, & saye:) For whom do I take soch trauayle? For whose pleasure do I thus consume awaye my lyfe? This is also a vayne and miserable thinge.

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    21Whether his children come to worshipe or no, he can not tell: And yf they be men of lowe degre, he knoweth not.

  • Job 20:28
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    28The substaunce that he hath in his house, shalbe taken awaye and perish, in the daye of the LORDES wrath.

  • Eccl 2:21-22
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    21for so moch as a man shulde weery him self with wy?dome, with vnderstondinge and opportunite, and yet be fayne to leaue his labours vnto another, yt neuer swett for them. This is also a vayne thinge and a greate misery.

    22For what getteth a ma of all ye labor & trauayle of his mynde, yt he taketh vnder the Sonne,

  • Ezek 18:14
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    14Now yf this man get a sonne also, that seith all this fathers synnes, which he hath done: and feareth, nether doth soch like:

  • Jas 1:10-11
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    10and the rich, in yt he is made lowe. For eue as the flor of ye grasse shal he vanyshe awaye.

    11The Sonne ryseth wt heat and the grasse wydereth, & his floure falleth awaye, and the beautie of the fassion of it perissheth: euen so shal the ryche man perisshe with his abundaunce.

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    4Riches helpe not in the daye of vengeaunce, but rightuousnesse delyuereth fro death.

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    22He that will be rich all to soone, hath an euell eye, and considereth not, that pouerte shall come vpon him.

  • Job 27:14
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    14Yf he get many childre, they shal perish wt the swearde, & his posterite shall haue scarcenesse of bred.

  • Prov 27:24
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    24For riches abyde not allwaye, & the crowne endureth not for euer.

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    3For what els hath a ma, of all the labor yt he taketh vnder the Sonne?

  • Prov 10:2
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    2Treasures that are wickedly gotten, profit nothinge, but rightuousnesse delyuereth from death.

  • Eccl 4:15
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    15And I perceaued, yt all men lyuynge vnder the Sonne, go wt the seconde childe, that commeth vp in the steade of the other.

  • Ps 49:17
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    17For he shal cary nothinge awaye wt him when he dyeth, nether shal his pompe folowe him.

  • Prov 22:16
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    16Who so doth a poore man wronge to increase his owne riches, geueth (comoly) vnto the rich, and at the last commeth to pouerte himself.

  • Prov 5:10-11
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    10That other men be not fylled with thy goodes, & that thy labours come not in a straunge house.

    11Yee that thou mourne not at the last (when thou hast spent thy body and goodes)

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    13They spende their dayes in welthynesse: but sodenly they go downe to hell.

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    11so shal pouerte come vnto the as one yt trauayleth by the waye, & necessite like a wapened man.

  • Job 20:22
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    22Though he had plenteousnesse of euerythinge, yet was he poore, & therfore he is but a wretch on euery syde.

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    14It is naught, It is naught (saye men) whan they haue it, but whan it is gone, they geue it a good worde.

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    5Why wilt thou set thine eye vpon ye thinge, which sodenly vanisheth awaye? For riches make them selues wynges, and take their flight like an Aegle in to ye ayre.

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    9What hath a ma els (that doth eny thinge) but weerynesse and laboure?

  • Prov 1:19
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    19These are the wayes of all soch as be couetous, that one wolde rauysh anothers life.