Ecclesiastes 5:13
There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun: wealth kept by its owner to his harm.
World English Bible British with Deuterocanon
In The King James Version
In Context
14Those riches perish by misfortune, and if he has fathered a son, there is nothing in his hand.
Cross References
Genesis 13:5Lot also, who went with Abram, had flocks, herds, and tents.
Genesis 19:14Lot went out, and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were pledged to marry his daughters, and said, “Get up! Get out of this place, for the LORD will destroy the city!” But he seemed to his sons-in-law to be joking.
Genesis 19:31The firstborn said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is not a man on the earth to come in to us in the way of all the earth.
Proverbs 1:19So are the ways of everyone who is greedy for gain. It takes away the life of its owners.
Proverbs 11:4Riches don’t profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death.
Proverbs 23:4Don’t weary yourself to be rich. In your wisdom, show restraint.
Matthew Henry on Ecclesiastes 5:10-18
The Vanity of Riches. 9 Moreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king himself is served by the field. 10 He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity. 11 When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: and what good is there to the owners thereof, saving the beholding of them with their eyes? 12 The sleep of a labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.… Read the whole commentary →