Ecclesiastes 5:10

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Summary

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

He that

This

General references

Genesis 13:6

Ecclesiastes 1:2

Matthew 6:19

Bible References

He that

It is one who is by himself, without a second, and without son or brother; but there is no end to all his work, and he has never enough of wealth. For whom, then, am I working and keeping myself from pleasure? This again is to no purpose, and a bitter work.

Why do you take pride in wrongdoing, lifting yourself up against the upright man all the day?

Have no faith in the rewards of evil-doing, or in profits wrongly made: if your wealth is increased, do not put your hopes on it.

The night-spirit has two daughters, Give, give. There are three things which are never full, even four which never say, Enough:

A curse on the cruel and false one! the man full of pride, who never has enough; who makes his desires wide as the underworld! he is like death; he is never full, but he makes all nations come to him, getting all peoples together to himself.

Make no store of wealth for yourselves on earth, where it may be turned to dust by worms and weather, and where thieves may come in by force and take it away.

And he said to them, Take care to keep yourselves free from the desire for property; for a man's life is not made up of the number of things which he has.

For the love of money is a root of all evil: and some whose hearts were fixed on it have been turned away from the faith, and been wounded with unnumbered sorrows.

This

And I gave my heart to getting knowledge of wisdom, and of the ways of the foolish. And I saw that this again was desire for wind.

Then I saw all the works which my hands had made, and everything I had been working to do; and I saw that all was to no purpose and desire for wind, and there was no profit under the sun.

Because the fate of the sons of men and the fate of the beasts is the same. As is the death of one so is the death of the other, and all have one spirit. Man is not higher than the beasts; because all is to no purpose.

And I saw that the cause of all the work and of everything which is done well was man's envy of his neighbour. This again is to no purpose and a desire for wind.

General references

So that the land was not wide enough for the two of them: their property was so great that there was not room for them together.

All is to no purpose, said the Preacher, all the ways of man are to no purpose.

Make no store of wealth for yourselves on earth, where it may be turned to dust by worms and weather, and where thieves may come in by force and take it away.