If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter: for he that is higher than the highest regardeth; and there be higher than they.(Ecclesiastes 5:8)

Moreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king himself is served by the field.(Ecclesiastes 5:9)

He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity.(Ecclesiastes 5:10)

When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: and what good is there to the owners thereof, saving the beholding of them with their eyes?

The sleep of a labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.(Ecclesiastes 5:12)

There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt.(Ecclesiastes 5:13)

But those riches perish by evil travail: and he begetteth a son, and there is nothing in his hand.(Ecclesiastes 5:14)

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Ecclesiastes 5:11 - Cross Reference

Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven. (Proverbs 23:5)

And he entreated Abram well for her sake: and he had sheep, and oxen, and he asses, and menservants, and maidservants, and she asses, and camels. (Genesis 12:16)

Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment. (Ecclesiastes 11:9)

And king Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel; and the levy was thirty thousand men. (1 Kings 5:13)

Behold, is it not of the LORD of hosts that the people shall labour in the very fire, and the people shall weary themselves for very vanity? (Habakkuk 2:13)

When I saw among the spoils a goodly Babylonish garment, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, then I coveted them, and took them; and, behold, they are hid in the earth in the midst of my tent, and the silver under it. (Joshua 7:21)

Moreover there were at my table an hundred and fifty of the Jews and rulers, beside those that came unto us from among the heathen that are about us. (Nehemiah 5:17)

And Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold. (Genesis 13:2)

And Lot also, which went with Abram, had flocks, and herds, and tents. (Genesis 13:5)

And Solomon's provision for one day was thirty measures of fine flour, and threescore measures of meal, (1 Kings 4:22)

As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not; so he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end shall be a fool. (Jeremiah 17:11)

Incline my heart unto thy testimonies, and not to covetousness. (Psalm 119:36)

Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this is also vanity and vexation of spirit. (Ecclesiastes 6:9)

For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. (1 John 2:16)