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 see them?

Genesis 12:16

He treated Abram well for her sake. Abram acquired sheep and cattle, male and female donkeys, menservants and maidservants, and camels.

Genesis 13:2

Abram had become very wealthy in livestock and in silver and gold.

Genesis 13:5-7

Lot moved about with Abram. He also had flocks and herds and tents.

When I saw among the spoils a quality Babylonish garment, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, then I coveted them, and took them. I hid them in the earth in the middle of my tent.

1 Kings 4:22-23

The supplies Solomon needed each day were one hundred and fifty bushels of fine flour and three hundred bushels of meal.

1 Kings 5:13-16

King Solomon drafted thirty thousand men as forced labor from all over Israel.

Nehemiah 5:17-18

There is more, 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 nearby.

Psalm 119:36-37

Incline my heart to your laws and not to dishonest gain.

Proverbs 23:5

Will you look for things that do not exist? Riches grow wings and fly away like a bird.

Ecclesiastes 6:9

Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering after the desire. This is also vanity and a striving after wind.

Ecclesiastes 11:9

Rejoice, O young man, in your youth. Let your heart cheer you in your early days. Walk in the ways of your heart, and in the desires of your eyes. Yet you know that God will bring you into judgment for all these things.

Jeremiah 17:11

A person who gets rich dishonestly is like a partridge that hatches eggs it did not lay. During his lifetime, he will lose his wealth. In the end, he will be a wicked fool.

Habakkuk 2:13

Is it for Jehovah of Hosts that the peoples labor for the fire? Do the nations weary themselves for vanity?

1 John 2:16

The entire world, the desire of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the boastful pride of material wealth, 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?

They

What

1 John 2:16

General references

Genesis 13:6

Matthew 6:19

Bible References

They

He treated Abram well for her sake. Abram acquired sheep and cattle, male and female donkeys, menservants and maidservants, and camels.

Abram had become very wealthy in livestock and in silver and gold.

The supplies Solomon needed each day were one hundred and fifty bushels of fine flour and three hundred bushels of meal.

King Solomon drafted thirty thousand men as forced labor from all over Israel.

There is more, 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 nearby.

Incline my heart to your laws and not to dishonest gain.

What

Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering after the desire. This is also vanity and a striving after wind.

Will you look for things that do not exist? Riches grow wings and fly away like a bird.

A person who gets rich dishonestly is like a partridge that hatches eggs it did not lay. During his lifetime, he will lose his wealth. In the end, he will be a wicked fool.

Is it for Jehovah of Hosts that the peoples labor for the fire? Do the nations weary themselves for vanity?

The entire world, the desire of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the boastful pride of material wealth, is not from the Father, but is from the world.

General references

But the land could not support them while they stayed together. Their possessions were so great that they were not able to stay together.

Do not accumulate large amounts of wealth on earth. This is where moth and rust consume and where thieves break in and steal.