Ecclesiastes 5:11

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?

They

What

1 John 2:16

General references

Genesis 13:6

Matthew 6:19

Bible References

They

which entreated Abram well for her sake, so that he had sheep, oxen and he-asses, men servants, maid servants, she-asses and camels.

Abram was very rich in cattle, silver and gold.

And Solomon's food was in one day thirty quarters of manchet flour and three score quarters of meal;

And king Solomon raised a tribute throughout all Israel. And the tribute was thirty thousand men,

Moreover there were at my table a hundred and fifty of the Jews and rulers, which came unto me, from among the Heathen that are about us.

Incline my heart unto thy testimonies, and not to covetousness.

What

The sight of the eyes is better, then that the soul should so depart away. Howbeit, this is also a vain thing and a disquietness of mind.

Be glad then, O thou young man, in thy youth, and let thine heart be merry in thy young days; follow the ways of thine own heart, and the lust of thine eyes: but be thou sure, that God shall bring thee into judgment for all these things.

I saw among the spoil a goodly Babylonish garment, and two hundredth sicles of silver, and a tongue of gold of fifty sicles weight: and I coveted them, and I took them. And behold they lie hid in the earth in my tent and the silver thereunder."

Why wilt thou set thine eye upon the thing, which suddenly vanisheth away? For riches make themselves wings, and take their flight like an Eagle into the air.

The deceitful maketh a nest, but bringeth forth no young: He cometh by riches, but not righteously. In the midst of his life must he leave them behind him, and at the last be found a very fool.

Shall not the LORD of Hosts bring this to pass, that the laborers of the people shall be burnt with a great fire, and that the thing whereupon the people have wearied themselves, shall be lost?

For all that is in the world - as the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of goods - are not of the father: but of the world.

General references

so that the land was not able to receive them that they might dwell together. For the substance of their riches was so great, that they could not dwell together.

"See that ye gather not treasure together upon the earth, where rust and moths corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: