Ecclesiastes 5:11

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Ecclesiastes 5:11

When good things increase, those who consume them increase. So what is the advantage to their owners except to look on?

Genesis 12:16

Therefore he treated Abram well for her sake; and gave him sheep and oxen and donkeys and male and female servants and female donkeys and camels.

Genesis 13:2

Now Abram was very rich in livestock, in silver and in gold.

Genesis 13:5-7

Now Lot, who went with Abram, also had flocks and herds and tents.

when I saw among the spoil a beautiful mantle from Shinar and two hundred shekels of silver and a bar of gold fifty shekels in weight, then I coveted them and took them; and behold, they are concealed in the earth inside my tent with the silver underneath it.”

1 Kings 4:22-23

Solomon’s provision for one day was thirty kors of fine flour and sixty kors of meal,

1 Kings 5:13-16

Now King Solomon levied forced laborers from all Israel; and the forced laborers numbered 30,000 men.

Nehemiah 5:17-18

Moreover, there were at my table one hundred and fifty Jews and officials, besides those who came to us from the nations that were around us.

Psalm 119:36-37

Incline my heart to Your testimonies
And not to dishonest gain.

Proverbs 23:5

When you set your eyes on it, it is gone.
For wealth certainly makes itself wings
Like an eagle that flies toward the heavens.

Ecclesiastes 6:9

What the eyes see is better than what the soul desires. This too is futility and a striving after wind.

Ecclesiastes 11:9

Rejoice, young man, during your childhood, and let your heart be pleasant during the days of young manhood. And follow the impulses of your heart and the desires of your eyes. Yet know that God will bring you to judgment for all these things.

Jeremiah 17:11

“As a partridge that hatches eggs which it has not laid,
So is he who makes a fortune, but unjustly;
In the midst of his days it will forsake him,
And in the end he will be a fool.”

Habakkuk 2:13

“Is it not indeed from the Lord of hosts
That peoples toil for fire,
And nations grow weary for nothing?

1 John 2:16

For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the boastful pride of life, is not from the Father, but is from the world.

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Summary

Ecclesiastes 5:11

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?

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What

1 John 2:16

General references

Genesis 13:6

Matthew 6:19

Bible References

They

Therefore he treated Abram well for her sake; and

gave him sheep and oxen and donkeys and male and female servants and female donkeys and camels.

Now Abram was very rich in livestock, in silver and in gold.

Solomon’s provision for one day was thirty kors of fine flour and sixty kors of meal,

Now King Solomon levied forced laborers from all Israel; and the forced laborers numbered 30,000 men.

Moreover, there were at my table one hundred and fifty Jews and officials, besides those who came to us from the nations that were around us.

Incline my heart to Your testimonies

And not to dishonest gain.

What

What the eyes see is better than what the soul desires. This too is futility and a striving after wind.

Rejoice, young man, during your childhood, and let your heart be pleasant during the days of young manhood. And follow the impulses of your heart and the

desires of your eyes. Yet know that God will bring you to judgment for all these things.

When you set your eyes on it, it is gone.

For wealth certainly makes itself wings
Like an eagle that flies toward the heavens.

“As a partridge that hatches eggs which it has not laid,
So is he who makes a fortune, but unjustly;
In the midst of his days it will forsake him,
And in the end he will be a fool.”

“Is it not indeed from the Lord of hosts
That peoples toil for fire,
And nations grow weary for nothing?

For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the boastful pride of life, is not from the Father, but is from the world.

General references

And the land could not sustain them while dwelling together, for their possessions were so great that they were not able to remain together.

“Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal.