Ecclesiastes 5:13

Hoarding Wealth Can Backfire

¹² The sleep of the labourer is sweet, whether he have eaten little or much; but the fulness of the rich doth not suffer him to sleep. ¹³ There is a grievous evil that I have seen under the sun: riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt; ¹⁴ or those riches perish by some evil circumstance, and if he have begotten a son, there is nothing in his hand.

In the World

On Earth

Under the Sun

Ecclesiastes 6:1-2

There is an evil that I have seen under the sun, and it is frequent among men:

Genesis 13:5-11

And Lot also who went with Abram had flocks, and herds, and tents.

Genesis 14:16

And he brought back all the property, and brought again his brother Lot and his property, and the women also, and the people.

Genesis 19:14

And Lot went out, and spoke to his sons-in-law, who had married his daughters, and said, Up, go out of this place, for Jehovah will destroy the city. But he was as if he jested, in the sight of his sons-in-law.

Genesis 19:26

And his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.

Genesis 19:31-38

And the first-born said to the younger, Our father is old, and there is not a man in the land to come in to us after the manner of all the earth:

Proverbs 1:11-13

If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk secretly for the innocent without cause;

Proverbs 1:19

So are the paths of every one that is greedy of gain: it taketh away the life of its possessors.

Proverbs 1:32

For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of the foolish shall cause them to perish.

Proverbs 11:4

Wealth profiteth not in the day of wrath; but righteousness delivereth from death.

Proverbs 11:24-25

There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is right, but it tendeth only to want.

Ecclesiastes 4:8

There is one alone and without a second; also he hath neither son nor brother: yet is there no end of all his labour, neither is his eye satisfied with riches, and he saith not, For whom then am I labouring, and depriving my soul of good? This also is vanity and a grievous occupation.

Ecclesiastes 8:9

All this have I seen, and applied my heart unto every work that is done under the sun: there is a time when man ruleth man to his hurt.

Isaiah 32:6-8

for the vile man will speak villainy, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and to utter error against Jehovah, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and to cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.

Zephaniah 1:18

their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them, in the day of Jehovah's wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for a full end, yea, a sudden end, shall he make of all them that dwell in the land.

Luke 12:16-21

And he spoke a parable to them, saying, The land of a certain rich man brought forth abundantly.

Luke 16:1-13

And he said also to his disciples, There was a certain rich man who had a steward, and he was accused to him as wasting his goods.

Luke 16:19

Now there was a rich man and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, making good cheer in splendour every day.

Luke 16:22-23

And it came to pass that the poor man died, and that he was carried away by the angels into the bosom of Abraham. And the rich man also died and was buried.

Luke 18:22-23

And when Jesus had heard this, he said to him, One thing is lacking to thee yet: Sell all that thou hast and distribute to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in the heavens, and come, follow me.

Isaiah 2:20

In that day men shall cast away their idols of silver and their idols of gold, which they made each for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats;

Luke 19:8

But Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord, Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor, and if I have taken anything from any man by false accusation, I return him fourfold.

1 Timothy 6:9-10

But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and many unwise and hurtful lusts, which plunge men into destruction and ruin.

James 2:5-7

Hear, my beloved brethren: Has not God chosen the poor as to the world, rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom, which he has promised to them that love him?

James 5:1-4

Go to now, ye rich, weep, howling over your miseries that are coming upon you.