Ecclesiastes 5:11

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Ecclesiastes 5:11

When goods increase, those who eat them are increased; and what advantage is there to its owner, except to feast on them with his eyes?

Genesis 12:16

He dealt well with Abram for her sake. He had sheep, cattle, male donkeys, male servants, female servants, female donkeys, and camels.

Genesis 13:2

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

Genesis 13:5-7

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

When I saw among the spoil a beautiful Babylonian robe, two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold weighing fifty shekels, then I coveted them and took them. Behold, they are hidden in the ground in the middle of my tent, with the silver under it."

1 Kings 4:22-23

Solomon's provision for one day was thirty measures of fine flour, and sixty measures of meal,

1 Kings 5:13-16

King Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel; and the levy was thirty thousand men.

Nehemiah 5:17-18

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

Psalm 119:36-37

Turn my heart toward your statutes, not toward selfish gain.

Proverbs 23:5

Why do you set your eyes on that which is not? For it certainly sprouts wings like an eagle and flies in the sky.

Ecclesiastes 6:9

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

Ecclesiastes 11:9

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

Jeremiah 17:11

As the partridge that sits on [eggs] which she has not laid, so is he who gets riches, and not by right; in the midst of his days they shall leave him, and at his end he shall be a fool.

Habakkuk 2:13

Behold, isn't it of Yahweh of Armies that the peoples labor for the fire, and the nations weary themselves for vanity?

1 John 2:16

For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, isn't the Father's, but is the world's.

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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 dealt well with Abram for her sake. He had sheep, cattle, male donkeys, male servants, female servants, female donkeys, and camels.

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

Solomon's provision for one day was thirty measures of fine flour, and sixty measures of meal,

King Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel; and the levy was thirty thousand men.

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

Turn my heart toward your statutes, not toward selfish gain.

What

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

Why do you set your eyes on that which is not? For it certainly sprouts wings like an eagle and flies in the sky.

As the partridge that sits on [eggs] which she has not laid, so is he who gets riches, and not by right; in the midst of his days they shall leave him, and at his end he shall be a fool.

Behold, isn't it of Yahweh of Armies that the peoples labor for the fire, and the nations weary themselves for vanity?

For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, isn't the Father's, but is the world's.

General references

The land was not able to bear them, that they might live together: for their substance was great, so that they could not live together.

"Don't lay up treasures for yourselves on the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal;