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?(Ecclesiastes 5:11)

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.

As he came forth of his mother's womb, naked shall he return to go as he came, and shall take nothing of his labour, which he may carry away in his hand.(Ecclesiastes 5:15)

And this also is a sore evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go: and what profit hath he that hath laboured for the wind?(Ecclesiastes 5:16)

All his days also he eateth in darkness, and he hath much sorrow and wrath with his sickness.(Ecclesiastes 5:17)

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Ecclesiastes 5:14 - Cross Reference

Since those days were, when one came to an heap of twenty measures, there were but ten: when one came to the pressfat for to draw out fifty vessels out of the press, there were but twenty. (Haggai 2:16)

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)

For God giveth to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he giveth travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him that is good before God. This also is vanity and vexation of spirit. (Ecclesiastes 2:26)

Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow. (Psalm 109:9)

Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare raiment as the clay; (Job 27:16)

He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly. (Job 20:15)

Ye looked for much, and, lo it came to little; and when ye brought it home, I did blow upon it. Why? saith the LORD of hosts. Because of mine house that is waste, and ye run every man unto his own house. (Haggai 1:9)

Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: (Matthew 6:19)

And he took away the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king's house; he even took away all: and he took away all the shields of gold which Solomon had made. (1 Kings 14:26)

And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left in thine house shall come and crouch to him for a piece of silver and a morsel of bread, and shall say, Put me, I pray thee, into one of the priests' offices, that I may eat a piece of bread. (1 Samuel 2:36)

Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance. (Job 5:5)

The LORD killeth, and maketh alive: he bringeth down to the grave, and bringeth up. (1 Samuel 2:6)

Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them. (Psalm 39:6)