Ecclesiastes 5:14

World English Bible (2000)

Those riches perish by misfortune, and if he has fathered a son, there is nothing in his hand.

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  • 1 Sam 2:6-8 : 6 "Yahweh kills, and makes alive. He brings down to Sheol, and brings up. 7 Yahweh makes poor, and makes rich. He brings low, he also lifts up. 8 He raises up the poor out of the dust. He lifts up the needy from the dunghill, To make them sit with princes, and inherit the throne of glory. For the pillars of the earth are Yahweh's. He has set the world on them.
  • 1 Sam 2:36 : 36 It shall happen, that everyone who is left in your house shall come and bow down to him for a piece of silver and a loaf of bread, and shall say, "Please put me into one of the priests' offices, that I may eat a morsel of bread."'"
  • 1 Kgs 14:26 : 26 and he took away the treasures of the house of Yahweh, and the treasures of the king's house; he even took away all: and he took away all the shields of gold which Solomon had made.
  • Job 5:5 : 5 whose harvest the hungry eats up, and take it even out of the thorns. The snare gapes for their substance.
  • Job 20:15-29 : 15 He has swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again. God will cast them out of his belly. 16 He shall suck cobra venom. The viper's tongue shall kill him. 17 He shall not look at the rivers, the flowing streams of honey and butter. 18 That for which he labored he shall restore, and shall not swallow it down. According to the substance that he has gotten, he shall not rejoice. 19 For he has oppressed and forsaken the poor. He has violently taken away a house, and he shall not build it up. 20 "Because he knew no quietness within him, he shall not save anything of that in which he delights. 21 There was nothing left that he didn't devour, therefore his prosperity shall not endure. 22 In the fullness of his sufficiency, distress shall overtake him. The hand of everyone who is in misery shall come on him. 23 When he is about to fill his belly, God will cast the fierceness of his wrath on him. It will rain on him while he is eating. 24 He shall flee from the iron weapon. The bronze arrow shall strike him through. 25 He draws it forth, and it comes out of his body. Yes, the glittering point comes out of his liver. Terrors are on him. 26 All darkness is laid up for his treasures. An unfanned fire shall devour him. It shall consume that which is left in his tent. 27 The heavens shall reveal his iniquity. The earth shall rise up against him. 28 The increase of his house shall depart. They shall rush away in the day of his wrath. 29 This is the portion of a wicked man from God, the heritage appointed to him by God."
  • Job 27:16-17 : 16 Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare clothing as the clay; 17 he may prepare it, but the just shall put it on, and the innocent shall divide the silver.
  • Ps 39:6 : 6 "Surely every man walks like a shadow. Surely they busy themselves in vain. He heaps up, and doesn't know who shall gather.
  • Ps 109:9-9 : 9 Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow. 10 Let his children be wandering beggars. Let them be sought from their ruins. 11 Let the creditor seize all that he has. Let strangers plunder the fruit of his labor. 12 Let there be none to extend kindness to him, neither let there be any to have pity on his fatherless children.
  • Prov 23:5 : 5 Why do you set your eyes on that which is not? For it certainly sprouts wings like an eagle and flies in the sky.
  • Eccl 2:26 : 26 For to the man who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy; but to the sinner he gives travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him who pleases God. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.
  • Hag 1:9 : 9 "You looked for much, and, behold, it came to little; and when you brought it home, I blew it away. Why?" says Yahweh of Armies, "Because of my house that lies waste, while each of you is busy with his own house.
  • Hag 2:16-17 : 16 Through all that time, when one came to a heap of twenty measures, there were only ten. When one came to the wine vat to draw out fifty, there were only twenty. 17 I struck you with blight, mildew, and hail in all the work of your hands; yet you didn't turn to me,' says Yahweh.
  • Matt 6:19-20 : 19 "Don't lay up treasures for yourselves on the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal; 20 but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consume, and where thieves don't break through and steal;

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    15 As he came forth from his mother's womb, naked shall he go again as he came, and shall take nothing for his labor, which he may carry away in his hand.

    16 This also is a grievous evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go. And what profit does he have who labors for the wind?

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  • Eccl 5:10-13
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    12 The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eats little or much; but the abundance of the rich will not allow him to sleep.

    13 There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun: wealth kept by its owner to his harm.

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    1 There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is heavy on men:

    2 a man to whom God gives riches, wealth, and honor, so that he lacks nothing for his soul of all that he desires, yet God gives him no power to eat of it, but an alien eats it. This is vanity, and it is an evil disease.

    3 If a man fathers a hundred children, and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul is not filled with good, and moreover he has no burial; I say, that a stillborn child is better than he:

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    11 Wealth gained dishonestly dwindles away, but he who gathers by hand makes it grow.

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    29 He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall their possessions be extended on the earth.

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    4 He becomes poor who works with a lazy hand, but the hand of the diligent brings wealth.

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    19 He lies down rich, but he shall not do so again. He opens his eyes, and he is not.

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    4 His children are far from safety. They are crushed in the gate. Neither is there any to deliver them,

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    10 His children shall seek the favor of the poor. His hands shall give back his wealth.

  • Prov 13:22-23
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    21 An inheritance quickly gained at the beginning, won't be blessed in the end.

  • Eccl 4:8
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    14 If his children are multiplied, it is for the sword. His offspring shall not be satisfied with bread.

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    24 for riches are not forever, nor does even the crown endure to all generations.

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    9 What profit has he who works in that in which he labors?

  • Prov 1:19
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    19 So are the ways of everyone who is greedy for gain. It takes away the life of its owners.