Ecclesiastes 5:11

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Ecclesiastes 5:11

When goods are increased, the number of those who take of them is increased; and what profit has the owner but to see them?

Genesis 12:16

And because of her, he was good to Abram, and he had sheep and oxen and asses, and men-servants and women-servants, and camels.

Genesis 13:2

Now Abram had great wealth of cattle and silver and gold.

Genesis 13:5-7

And Lot, who went with him, had flocks and herds and tents;

When I saw among their goods a fair robe of Babylon and two hundred shekels of silver, and a mass of gold, fifty shekels in weight, I was overcome by desire and took them; and they are put away in the earth in my tent, and the silver is under it.

1 Kings 4:22-23

And the amount of Solomon's food for one day was thirty measures of crushed grain and sixty measures of meal;

1 Kings 5:13-16

Then King Solomon got together men for the forced work through all Israel, thirty thousand men in number;

Nehemiah 5:17-18

And more than this, a hundred and fifty of the Jews and the rulers were guests at my table, in addition to those who came to us from the nations round about us.

Psalm 119:36-37

Let my heart be turned to your unchanging word, and not to evil desire.

Proverbs 23:5

Are your eyes lifted up to it? it is gone: for wealth takes to itself wings, like an eagle in flight up to heaven.

Ecclesiastes 6:9

What the eyes see is better than the wandering of desire. This is to no purpose and a desire for wind.

Ecclesiastes 11:9

Have joy, O young man, while you are young; and let your heart be glad in the days of your strength, and go in the ways of your heart, and in the desire of your eyes; but be certain that for all these things God will be your judge.

Jeremiah 17:11

Like the partridge, getting eggs together but not producing young, is a man who gets wealth but not by right; before half his days are ended, it will go from him, and at his end he will be foolish.

Habakkuk 2:13

See, is it not the pleasure of the Lord of armies that the peoples are working for the fire and using themselves up for nothing?

1 John 2:16

Because everything in the world, the desire of the flesh, the desire of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father but of 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?

They

What

1 John 2:16

General references

Genesis 13:6

Matthew 6:19

Bible References

They

And because of her, he was good to Abram, and he had sheep and oxen and asses, and men-servants and women-servants, and camels.

Now Abram had great wealth of cattle and silver and gold.

And the amount of Solomon's food for one day was thirty measures of crushed grain and sixty measures of meal;

Then King Solomon got together men for the forced work through all Israel, thirty thousand men in number;

And more than this, a hundred and fifty of the Jews and the rulers were guests at my table, in addition to those who came to us from the nations round about us.

Let my heart be turned to your unchanging word, and not to evil desire.

What

What the eyes see is better than the wandering of desire. This is to no purpose and a desire for wind.

Are your eyes lifted up to it? it is gone: for wealth takes to itself wings, like an eagle in flight up to heaven.

Like the partridge, getting eggs together but not producing young, is a man who gets wealth but not by right; before half his days are ended, it will go from him, and at his end he will be foolish.

See, is it not the pleasure of the Lord of armies that the peoples are working for the fire and using themselves up for nothing?

Because everything in the world, the desire of the flesh, the desire of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father but of the world.

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.

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.