Ecclesiastes 5:13

Hoarding Wealth Can Backfire

¹² Sweet is the sleep of a laborer, whether he eats little or much, but the full stomach of the rich will not let him sleep. ¹³ There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun: riches being hoarded by their owner to his hurt. ¹⁴ and those riches were lost in a bad venture. And he is father of a son, but he has nothing in his hand.

In the World

On Earth

Under the Sun

Ecclesiastes 6:1-2

There is an evil that I have seen under the sun, and it lies heavy on mankind:

Genesis 13:5-11

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

Genesis 14:16

Then he brought back all the possessions, and also brought back his kinsman Lot with his possessions, and the women and the people.

Genesis 19:14

So Lot went out and said to his sons-in-law, who were to marry his daughters, "Up! Get out of this place, for the LORD is about to destroy the city." But he seemed to his sons-in-law to be jesting.

Genesis 19:26

But Lot's wife, behind him, looked back, and she became a pillar of salt.

Genesis 19:31-38

And the firstborn said to the younger, "Our father is old, and there is not a man on earth to come in to us after the manner of all the earth.

Proverbs 1:11-13

If they say, "Come with us, let us lie in wait for blood; let us ambush the innocent without reason;

Proverbs 1:19

Such are the ways of everyone who is greedy for unjust gain; it takes away the life of its possessors.

Proverbs 1:32

For the simple are killed by their turning away, and the complacency of fools destroys them;

Proverbs 11:4

Riches do not profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death.

Proverbs 11:24-25

One gives freely, yet grows all the richer; another withholds what he should give, and only suffers want.

Ecclesiastes 4:8

one person who has no other, either son or brother, yet there is no end to all his toil, and his eyes are never satisfied with riches, so that he never asks, "For whom am I toiling and depriving myself of pleasure?" This also is vanity and an unhappy business.

Ecclesiastes 8:9

All this I observed while applying my heart to all that is done under the sun, when man had power over man to his hurt.

Isaiah 32:6-8

For the fool speaks folly, and his heart is busy with iniquity, to practice ungodliness, to utter error concerning the LORD, to leave the craving of the hungry unsatisfied, and to deprive the thirsty of drink.

Zephaniah 1:18

Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them on the day of the wrath of the LORD. In the fire of his jealousy, all the earth shall be consumed; for a full and sudden end he will make of all the inhabitants of the earth.

Luke 12:16-21

And he told them a parable, saying, "The land of a rich man produced plentifully,

Luke 16:1-13

He also said to the disciples, "There was a rich man who had a manager, and charges were brought to him that this man was wasting his possessions.

Luke 16:19

"There was a rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen and who feasted sumptuously every day.

Luke 16:22-23

The poor man died and was carried by the angels to Abraham's side. The rich man also died and was buried,

Luke 18:22-23

When Jesus heard this, he said to him, "One thing you still lack. Sell all that you have and distribute to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me."

Isaiah 2:20

In that day mankind will cast away their idols of silver and their idols of gold, which they made for themselves to worship, to the moles and to the bats,

Luke 19:8

And Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord, "Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor. And if I have defrauded anyone of anything, I restore it fourfold."

1 Timothy 6:9-10

But those who desire to be rich fall into temptation, into a snare, into many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction.

James 2:5-7

Listen, my beloved brothers, has not God chosen those who are poor in the world to be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom, which he has promised to those who love him?

James 5:1-4

Come now, you rich, weep and howl for the miseries that are coming upon you.