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 an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is common among men:
• Luke 18:22–23Now when Jesus heard these things, he said unto him, Yet lackest thou one thing: sell all that thou hast, and distribute unto the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, follow me.
• Gen 19:14And Lot went out, and spake unto his sons in law, which married his daughters, and said, Up, get you out of this place; for the LORD will destroy this city. But he seemed as one that mocked unto his sons in law.
• Luke 16:22–23And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham’s bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried;
• Jas 5:1–4Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.
• Prov 11:24–25There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty.
• Eccl 8:9All this have I seen, and applied my heart unto every work that is done under the sun: there is a time wherein one man ruleth over another to his own hurt.
• Gen 14:16And he brought back all the goods, and also brought again his brother Lot, and his goods, and the women also, and the people.
• Eccl 4:8There is one alone, and there is not a second; yea, he hath neither child nor brother: yet is there no end of all his labour; neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither saith he, For whom do I labour, and bereave my soul of good? This is also vanity, yea, it is a sore travail.
• Prov 1:11–13If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:
• Zeph 1:18Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD’s wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.
• Prov 1:19So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.
• Isa 32:6–8For the vile person will speak villany, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and to utter error against the LORD, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.
• Prov 11:4Riches profit not in the day of wrath: but righteousness delivereth from death.
• Luke 12:16–21And he spake a parable unto them, saying, The ground of a certain rich man brought forth plentifully:
• Luke 16:1–13And he said also unto his disciples, There was a certain rich man, which had a steward; and the same was accused unto him that he had wasted his goods.
• Prov 1:32For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.
• Luke 16:19There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day:
• Gen 19:26But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.
• Gen 13:5–11And Lot also, which went with Abram, had flocks, and herds, and tents.
• Luke 19:8And Zacchaeus stood, and said unto the Lord; Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor; and if I have taken any thing from any man by false accusation, I restore him fourfold.
• Jas 2:5–7Hearken, my beloved brethren, Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him?
• 1 Tim 6:9–10But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.
• Gen 19:31–38And the firstborn said unto the younger, Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth to come in unto us after the manner of all the earth:
• Isa 2:20In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made each one for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats;

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