Ecclesiastes 5:11

When prosperity increases, those who consume it increase. {So its owner gains nothing, except to see his wealth before it is spent}.

Genesis 12:16

And he dealt well with Abram on account of her, and he had sheep, cattle, male donkeys, male servants, female servants, female donkeys, and camels.

Genesis 13:2

Now Abram [was] very wealthy in livestock, in silver, and in gold.

Genesis 13:5-7

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

Joshua 7:21-25

I saw among the spoil a beautiful robe from Shinar, two hundred shekels of silver, and one bar of gold [that] weighed fifty shekels; I coveted them and took them. They [are] hidden in the ground inside my tent, and the silver [is] under it."

1 Kings 4:22-23

The food of Solomon for one day was thirty dry measures of choice meal and sixty dry measures of flour;

1 Kings 5:13-16

Then King Solomon conscripted a forced labor from all Israel, and the forced labor [numbered] thirty thousand men.

Nehemiah 5:17-18

One hundred and fifty men, prefects and Jews, and those who came to us from the nations around us, [were] at my table.

Psalm 119:36-37

Incline my heart to your testimonies, and not to [dishonest] gain.

Proverbs 23:5

Your eyes will {alight} on it, but there is nothing [to] it, for suddenly it will make for itself wings like an eagle and it will be exhausted [in] the heavens.

Ecclesiastes 6:9

{Better to be content with what your eyes see than for your soul to constantly crave more}. This also [is] vanity and chasing wind!

Ecclesiastes 11:9

Rejoice, O young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth! Follow the ways of your heart and the sight of your eyes-- but know that God will bring you into judgment for all these things.

Jeremiah 17:11

[Like] a partridge that hatches eggs it did not lay [is] one who amasses wealth without justice. In the middle of his days it will leave him, and at his end he will [prove to] be a fool."

Habakkuk 2:13

Look! [Is it] not from Yahweh of hosts that people labor for mere fire, and nations exhaust themselves for mere vanity?

1 John 2:16

because everything [that is] in the world--the desire of the flesh and the desire of the eyes and the arrogance of material possessions--is not from the Father, but is from the world.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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?

General references

Bible References

They

Genesis 12:16
And he dealt well with Abram on account of her, and he had sheep, cattle, male donkeys, male servants, female servants, female donkeys, and camels.
Genesis 13:2
Now Abram [was] very wealthy in livestock, in silver, and in gold.
1 Kings 4:22
The food of Solomon for one day was thirty dry measures of choice meal and sixty dry measures of flour;
1 Kings 5:13
Then King Solomon conscripted a forced labor from all Israel, and the forced labor [numbered] thirty thousand men.
Nehemiah 5:17
One hundred and fifty men, prefects and Jews, and those who came to us from the nations around us, [were] at my table.
Psalm 119:36
Incline my heart to your testimonies, and not to [dishonest] gain.

What

Ecclesiastes 6:9
{Better to be content with what your eyes see than for your soul to constantly crave more}. This also [is] vanity and chasing wind!
Ecclesiastes 11:9
Rejoice, O young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth! Follow the ways of your heart and the sight of your eyes-- but know that God will bring you into judgment for all these things.
Joshua 7:21
I saw among the spoil a beautiful robe from Shinar, two hundred shekels of silver, and one bar of gold [that] weighed fifty shekels; I coveted them and took them. They [are] hidden in the ground inside my tent, and the silver [is] under it."
Proverbs 23:5
Your eyes will {alight} on it, but there is nothing [to] it, for suddenly it will make for itself wings like an eagle and it will be exhausted [in] the heavens.
Jeremiah 17:11
[Like] a partridge that hatches eggs it did not lay [is] one who amasses wealth without justice. In the middle of his days it will leave him, and at his end he will [prove to] be a fool."
Habakkuk 2:13
Look! [Is it] not from Yahweh of hosts that people labor for mere fire, and nations exhaust themselves for mere vanity?
1 John 2:16
because everything [that is] in the world--the desire of the flesh and the desire of the eyes and the arrogance of material possessions--is not from the Father, but is from the world.

General references

Genesis 13:6
And the land could not {support them} [so as] to live together, because their possessions were [so] many that they were not able to live together.
Matthew 6:19
"Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and consuming [insect] destroy and where thieves break in and steal,