Ecclesiastes 5:17

Hoarding Wealth Can Backfire

¹⁶ This also [is] a grievous illness. Exactly as he came, so he will go. What profit [does] he gain for all his toil for the wind? ¹⁷ Also, he eats in darkness all his days; he is frustrated [in] much sickness and resentment. ¹⁸ Look! I have discovered what is good and fitting: to eat and to drink and {to enjoy} all [the fruit of] the toil with which one toils under the sun during the number of the days of his life that God gives to him--for this [is] his lot.

All the Days of His Life

Psalm 127:2

[It is] in vain for you who rise early [and] sit late, eating the bread of anxious toil, [when] thus he provides for his beloved in [his] sleep.

Genesis 3:17

And to Adam he said, "Because you listened to the voice of your wife and you ate from the tree {from which I forbade you to eat}, the ground [shall be] cursed on your account. In pain you shall eat [from] it all the days of your life.

1 Kings 17:12

She said, "{As Yahweh your God lives}, surely I do not have a cake, {but only a handful of flour} in the jar and a little olive oil in the jug. Here I [am] gathering a few pieces of wood, and I will go and prepare it for me and my son, that we might eat it and die."

2 Kings 1:2

Ahaziah had fallen through the lattice in his upper room, which [was] in Samaria, and he was injured. So he sent messengers, and he said to them, "Go, inquire of Baal-Zebub, the god of Ekron, if I will survive this injury."

2 Kings 1:6

Then they said to him, "A man came up to meet us, and he said to us, 'Go, return to the king who sent you and speak to him, "Thus says Yahweh, 'Is it because there is no God in Israel that you [are] sending to inquire of Baal-Zebub the god of Ekron? Therefore the bed upon which you have gone, you will not come down from it, for you will surely die.'" '"

2 Kings 5:27

The skin disease of Naaman shall cling to you and to your offspring forever." Then he went out from before him having a skin disease like the snow.

2 Chronicles 16:10-12

Then Asa was angry with the seer and put him in {the prison}, for he was enraged with him concerning this. And Asa oppressed some of the people at that time.

2 Chronicles 24:24-25

Though the army of Aram came with few men, Yahweh gave a very large army into their hand, for they had forsaken Yahweh, the God of their ancestors. And they inflicted punishment on Joash.

Job 21:25

Yet another dies with a bitter inner self and has not tasted prosperity.

Psalm 78:33

And he consumed their days with futility their years with terror.

Psalm 90:7-11

For we are brought to an end by your anger, and we hasten [off] by your wrath.

Psalm 102:9

Indeed, I eat ashes like bread and mix my drink with tears

Proverbs 1:27-29

When your panic comes like a storm, and your calamity arrives like a whirlwind, when distress and anguish come upon you,

Ezekiel 4:16-17

And he said to me, "Son of man, look, I [am] going to break the {supply} of bread in Jerusalem, and they will eat bread by weight, {anxiously}, and {rationed water}, and they will drink with horror,

Acts 12:23

And immediately an angel of the Lord struck him down {because} he did not give the glory to God. And he was eaten by worms [and] died.

1 Corinthians 11:30-32

Because of this, many [are] weak and sick among you, and quite a few {have died}.