Ecclesiastes 5:13

The Preacher saw a grievous evil: wealth hoarded by its owner only to his own harm. It matters because riches clutched in greed can become a curse rather than a blessing.

Cross-references · 25

• Eccl 6:1–2There is another evil I have seen under the sun, and it weighs heavily upon mankind:
• Luke 18:22–23On hearing this, Jesus told him, “You still lack one thing: Sell everything you own and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow Me.”
• Gen 19:14So Lot went out and spoke to the sons-in-law who were pledged in marriage to his daughters. “Get up,” he said. “Get out of this place, for the LORD is about to destroy the city!” But his sons-in-law thought he was joking.
• Luke 16:22–23One day the beggar died and was carried by the angels to Abraham’s side. And the rich man also died and was buried.
• Jas 5:1–4Come now, you who are rich, weep and wail over the misery to come upon you.
• Prov 11:24–25One gives freely, yet gains even more; another withholds what is right, only to become poor.
• Eccl 8:9All this I have seen, applying my mind to every deed that is done under the sun; there is a time when one man lords it over another to his own detriment.
• Gen 14:16He retrieved all the goods, as well as his relative Lot and his possessions, together with the women and the rest of the people.
• Eccl 4:8There is a man all alone, without even a son or brother. And though there is no end to his labor, his eyes are still not content with his wealth: “For whom do I toil and bereave my soul of enjoyment?” This too is futile—a miserable task.
• Prov 1:11–13If they say, “Come along, let us lie in wait for blood, let us ambush the innocent without cause,
• Zeph 1:18Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to deliver them on the Day of the LORD’s wrath. The whole earth will be consumed by the fire of His jealousy.” For indeed, He will make a sudden end of all who dwell on the earth.
• Prov 1:19Such is the fate of all who are greedy, whose unjust gain takes the lives of its possessors.
• Isa 32:6–8For a fool speaks foolishness; his mind plots iniquity. He practices ungodliness and speaks falsely about the LORD; he leaves the hungry empty and deprives the thirsty of drink.
• Prov 11:4Riches are worthless in the day of wrath, but righteousness brings deliverance from death.
• Luke 12:16–21Then He told them a parable: “The ground of a certain rich man produced an abundance.
• Luke 16:1–13Jesus also said to His disciples, “There was a rich man whose manager was accused of wasting his possessions.
• Prov 1:32For the waywardness of the simple will slay them, and the complacency of fools will destroy them.
• Luke 16:19Now there was a rich man dressed in purple and fine linen, who lived each day in joyous splendor.
• Gen 19:26But Lot’s wife looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.
• Gen 13:5–11Now Lot, who was traveling with Abram, also had flocks and herds and tents.
• Luke 19:8But Zacchaeus stood up and said to the Lord, “Look, Lord, half of my possessions I give to the poor, and if I have cheated anyone, I will repay it fourfold.”
• Jas 2:5–7Listen, my beloved brothers: Has not God chosen the poor of this world to be rich in faith and to inherit the kingdom He promised those who love Him?
• 1 Tim 6:9–10Those who want to be rich, however, fall into temptation and become ensnared by many foolish and harmful desires that plunge them into ruin and destruction.
• Gen 19:31–38One day the older daughter said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is no man in the land to sleep with us, as is the custom over all the earth.
• Isa 2:20In that day men will cast away to the moles and bats their idols of silver and gold—the idols they made to worship.

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