Ecclesiastes 5:17

Hoarding Wealth Can Backfire

¹⁶ And also this an evil making sick, wholly as he came so shall he go: and what to him he shall labor for the wind? ¹⁷ Also all his days in darkness shall he eat, and much vexation and his sickness and his anger. ¹⁸ Behold, what I saw: good, which is beautiful to eat and to drink, and to see good in all his labor that he will labor under the sun the number of the days of his life, which God gave to him; for this his portion.

All the Days of His Life

Psalm 127:2

In vain for you rising early to arise from after sitting; eating the bread of toils: so will he give to his beloved sleep.

Genesis 3:17

And to Adam he said, Because thou didst listen to the voice of thy wife, and thou wilt eat from the tree which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat from it; cursed the earth for thy sake; in labor shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;

1 Kings 17:12

And she will say, Jehovah thy God lives, if there is to me a cake, but a handful of flour in a bucket, and a little oil in a cruse: and behold me gathering two woods, and I went to do it for me and for my son, and we shall eat and die.

2 Kings 1:2

And Ahaziah will fall through the lattice in his upper chamber which was in Shomeron, and he will be sick: and he will send messengers, and say to them, Go seek in Baal the fly god of Ekron, if I shall live from this disease.

2 Kings 1:6

And they will say to him, A man came up to our meeting, and he will say to us, Go, turn back to the king who sent you, and speak to him, Thus said Jehovah, Is it because there is no God in Israel thou sentest to seek in Baal the fly god of Ekron? for this the bed where thou wentest up there, thou shalt not come down from it, for dying, thou shalt die.

2 Kings 5:27

And the leprosy of Naaman shall cleave upon thee and upon thy seed forever. And he will go forth from his face being leprous as snow.

2 Chronicles 16:10-12

And Asa will be indignant to the seer, and he will give him to the house of the stocks, for he was in anger with him for this And Asa will oppress from the people in that time.

2 Chronicles 24:24-25

For with a smallness of men came the army of Aram, and Jehovah gave into their hand an army to a great multitude, for they forsook Jehovah the God of their fathers. And they did judgment with Joash.

Job 21:25

And this will die in the soul of bitterness, and will not eat in good.

Psalm 78:33

And he will finish their days in vanity, and their years in terror.

Psalm 90:7-11

For we were finished in thine Anger, and in thy wrath we were terrified.

Psalm 102:9

For I ate ashes as bread, and I mingled my drink with weeping.

Proverbs 1:27-29

In your terror coming as a destroying tempest, and your ruin shall come as a whirlwind; in the coming upon you of straits and distress.

Ezekiel 4:16-17

And he will say to me, Son of man, behold me breaking the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they ate bread by weight and with fear; and they shall drink water by measure, and with astonishment

Acts 12:23

And immediately the messenger of the Lord struck him, because he gave not the glory to God: and eaten by worms, he expired.

1 Corinthians 11:30-32

For this many among you weak and sick, and enough are asleep.