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 heavy on men:
• Luke 18:22–23When Jesus heard these things, he said to him, “You still lack one thing. Sell all that you have, and distribute it to the poor. You will have treasure in heaven. Come, follow me.”
• Gen 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 Yahweh will destroy the city.” But he seemed to his sons-in-law to be joking.
• Luke 16:22–23The beggar died, and he was carried away by the angels to Abraham’s bosom. The rich man also died, and was buried.
• Jas 5:1–4Come now, you rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming on you.
• Prov 11:24–25There is one who scatters, and increases yet more. There is one who withholds more than is appropriate, but gains poverty.
• Eccl 8:9All this I have seen, and applied my mind to every work that is done under the sun. There is a time in which one man has power over another to his hurt.
• Gen 14:16He brought back all the goods, and also brought back his relative, Lot, and his goods, and the women also, and the other people.
• Eccl 4:8There is one who is alone, and he has neither son nor brother. There is no end to all of his labor, neither are his eyes satisfied with wealth. “For whom then, do I labor, and deprive my soul of enjoyment?” This also is vanity. Yes, it is a miserable business.
• Prov 1:11–13If they say, “Come with us. Let’s lay in wait for blood. Let’s lurk secretly for the innocent without cause.
• Zeph 1:18Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to deliver them in the day of Yahweh’s wrath, but the whole land will be devoured by the fire of his jealousy; for he will make an end, yes, a terrible end, of all those who dwell in the land.
• Prov 1:19So are the ways of everyone who is greedy for gain. It takes away the life of its owners.
• Isa 32:6–8For the fool will speak folly, and his heart will work iniquity, to practice profanity, and to utter error against Yahweh, To make empty the soul of the hungry, and to cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.
• Prov 11:4Riches don’t profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death.
• Luke 12:16–21He spoke a parable to them, saying, “The ground of a certain rich man produced abundantly.
• Luke 16:1–13He also said to his disciples, “There was a certain rich man who had a manager. An accusation was made to him that this man was wasting his possessions.
• Prov 1:32For the backsliding of the simple will kill them. The careless ease of fools will destroy them.
• Luke 16:19“Now there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, living in luxury every day.
• Gen 19:26But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.
• Gen 13:5–11Lot also, who went with Abram, had flocks, herds, and tents.
• Luke 19:8Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord, “Behold, Lord, half of my goods I give to the poor. If I have wrongfully exacted anything of anyone, I restore four times as much.”
• Jas 2:5–7Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn’t God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him?
• 1 Tim 6:9–10But those who are determined to be rich fall into a temptation and a snare and many foolish and harmful lusts, such as drown men in ruin and destruction.
• Gen 19:31–38The firstborn said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth to come in to us in the way of all the earth.
• Isa 2:20In that day, men shall cast away their idols of silver, and their idols of gold, which have been made for themselves to worship, to the moles and to the bats;

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