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

There is one alone, and there is not a second; yea, he has neither child nor brother: yet is there no end of all his labor; neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither says he, For whom do I labor, and deprive my soul of good? This is also vanity, yea, it is a heavy travail.

[To the Chief Musician, a maschil. A Psalm of David, when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul, and said unto him, David is come to the house of Ahimelech.] Why boast you yourself in evil, O mighty man? the goodness of God endures continually.

Trust not in oppression, and hope not vainly in robbery: if riches increase, set not your heart upon them.

The leach has two daughters, crying, Give, give. There are three things that are never satisfied, yea, four things say not, It is enough:

Yea also, because he transgresses by wine, he is a proud man, neither keeps at home, who enlarges his desire as sheol, and is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathers unto him all nations, and heaps unto him all people:

Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust does corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:

And he said unto them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man's life consists not in the abundance of the things which he possesses.

For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.

This

And I set my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is like grasping the wind.

Then I looked on all the works that my hands had made, and on the labor that I had expended on it: and, behold, all was vanity and like grasping the wind, and there was no profit under the sun.

For that which befalls the sons of men befalls beasts; the same thing befalls them: as the one dies, so dies the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man has no advantage over a beast: for all is vanity.

Again, I considered all toil, and every skillful work, that for this a man is envied by his neighbor. This is also vanity and grasping after the wind.

General references

And the land was not able to bear them, that they might dwell together: for their possessions were great, so that they could not dwell together.

Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.

Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust does corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: