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 127:2It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved sleep.
• Ps 102:9For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping,
• 2 Kgs 5:27The leprosy therefore of Naaman shall cleave unto thee, and unto thy seed for ever. And he went out from his presence a leper as white as snow.
• 2 Chr 24:24–25For the army of the Syrians came with a small company of men, and the LORD delivered a very great host into their hand, because they had forsaken the LORD God of their fathers. So they executed judgment against Joash.
• Ps 90:7–11For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled.
• 1 Kgs 17:12And she said, As the LORD thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but an handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse: and, behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die.
• Job 21:25And another dieth in the bitterness of his soul, and never eateth with pleasure.
• 2 Kgs 1:2And Ahaziah fell down through a lattice in his upper chamber that was in Samaria, and was sick: and he sent messengers, and said unto them, Go, enquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron whether I shall recover of this disease.
• Acts 12:23And immediately the angel of the Lord smote him, because he gave not God the glory: and he was eaten of worms, and gave up the ghost.
• Gen 3:17And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in sorrow shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;
• Prov 1:27–29When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you.
• 2 Kgs 1:6And they said unto him, There came a man up to meet us, and said unto us, Go, turn again unto the king that sent you, and say unto him, Thus saith the LORD, Is it not because there is not a God in Israel, that thou sendest to enquire of Baalzebub the god of Ekron? therefore thou shalt not come down from that bed on which thou art gone up, but shalt surely die.
• Ps 78:33Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, and their years in trouble.
• 1 Cor 11:30–32For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep.
• Ezek 4:16–17Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by weight, and with care; and they shall drink water by measure, and with astonishment:
• 2 Chr 16:10–12Then Asa was wroth with the seer, and put him in a prison house; for he was in a rage with him because of this thing. And Asa oppressed some of the people the same time.

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