Ecclesiastes 5:11

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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

and to Abram he hath done good because of her, and he hath sheep and oxen, and he-asses, and men-servants, and handmaids, and she-asses, and camels.

and Abram is exceedingly wealthy in cattle, in silver, and in gold.

And the provision of Solomon for one day is thirty cors of flour, and sixty cors of meal;

And king Solomon lifteth up a tribute out of all Israel, and the tribute is thirty thousand men,

and of the Jews, and of the prefects, a hundred and fifty men, and those coming in unto us of the nations that are round about us, are at my table;

Incline my heart unto Thy testimonies, And not unto dishonest gain.

What

Better is the sight of the eyes than the going of the soul. This also is vanity and vexation of spirit.

Rejoice, O young man, in thy childhood, And let thy heart gladden thee in days of thy youth, And walk in the ways of thy heart, And in the sight of thine eyes, And know thou that for all these, Doth God bring thee into judgment.

and I see among the spoil a goodly robe of Shinar, and two hundred shekels of silver, and one wedge of gold, whose weight is fifty shekels, and I desire them, and take them; and lo, they are hid in the earth, in the midst of my tent, and the silver under it.'

For wealth maketh to itself wings, As an eagle it flieth to the heavens.

A partridge hatching, and not bringing forth, Is one making wealth, and not by right, In the midst of his days he doth forsake it, And in his latter end -- he is a fool.

Lo, is it not from Jehovah of Hosts And peoples are fatigued for fire, And nations for vanity are weary?

because all that is in the world -- the desire of the flesh, and the desire of the eyes, and the ostentation of the life -- is not of the Father, but of the world,

General references

and the land hath not suffered them to dwell together, for their substance hath been much, and they have not been able to dwell together;

'Treasure not up to yourselves treasures on the earth, where moth and rust disfigure, and where thieves break through and steal,