Ecclesiastes 5:17

The greedy man spends his days in darkness, frustration, sickness, and anger. It matters because a life consumed by gaining wealth brings misery rather than joy.

Cross-references · 16

• Ps 127:2In vain you rise early and stay up late, toiling for bread to eat—for He gives sleep to His beloved.
• Ps 102:9For I have eaten ashes like bread and mixed my drink with tears
• 2 Kgs 5:27Therefore, the leprosy of Naaman will cling to you and your descendants forever!” And as Gehazi left his presence, he was leprous—as white as snow.
• 2 Chr 24:24–25Although the Aramean army had come with only a few men, the LORD delivered into their hand a very great army. Because Judah had forsaken the LORD, the God of their fathers, judgment was executed on Joash.
• Ps 90:7–11For we are consumed by Your anger and terrified by Your wrath.
• 1 Kgs 17:12But she replied, “As surely as the LORD your God lives, I have no bread—only a handful of flour in a jar and a little oil in a jug. Look, I am gathering a couple of sticks to take home and prepare a meal for myself and my son, so that we may eat it and die.”
• Job 21:25Yet another man dies in the bitterness of his soul, having never tasted prosperity.
• 2 Kgs 1:2Now Ahaziah had fallen through the lattice of his upper room in Samaria and injured himself. So he sent messengers and instructed them: “Go inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, whether I will recover from this injury.”
• Acts 12:23Immediately, because Herod did not give glory to God, an angel of the Lord struck him down, and he was eaten by worms and died.
• Gen 3:17And to Adam He said: “Because you have listened to the voice of your wife and have eaten from the tree of which I commanded you not to eat, cursed is the ground because of you; through toil you will eat of it all the days of your life.
• Prov 1:27–29when your dread comes like a storm, and your destruction like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish overwhelm you.
• 2 Kgs 1:6They replied, “A man came up to meet us and said, ‘Go back to the king who sent you and tell him that this is what the LORD says: Is it because there is no God in Israel that you are sending these men to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron? Therefore you will not get up from the bed on which you are lying. You will surely die.’”
• Ps 78:33So He ended their days in futility, and their years in sudden terror.
• 1 Cor 11:30–32That is why many among you are weak and sick, and a number of you have fallen asleep.
• Ezek 4:16–17Then He told me, “Son of man, I am going to cut off the supply of food in Jerusalem. They will anxiously eat bread rationed by weight, and in despair they will drink water by measure.
• 2 Chr 16:10–12Asa was angry with the seer and became so enraged over this matter that he put the man in prison. And at the same time Asa oppressed some of the people.

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