Ecclesiastes 5:13

Hoarding Wealth Can Backfire

¹² The sleep of the servant is sweet whether he eats little or much, but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep. ¹³ There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun: riches being hoarded by their owner to his hurt. ¹⁴ which are lost by evil pursuits and to the sons which he has begotten; there is nothing left in his hand.

In the World

On Earth

Under the Sun

Ecclesiastes 6:1-2

There is another evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is very common among men:

Genesis 13:5-11

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

Genesis 14:16

And he recovered all the goods and also brought again his brother Lot and his goods and the women also and the people.

Genesis 19:14

And Lot went out and spoke unto his sons-in-law, those who were to marry his daughters, and said, Up, get you out of this place; for the LORD will destroy this city. But he seemed as one that mocked unto his sons-in-law.

Genesis 19:26

Then the wife of Lot looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.

Genesis 19:31-38

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

Proverbs 1:11-13

If they say, Come with us, let us lay in wait for blood; let us ambush the innocent without cause.

Proverbs 1:19

So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain which takes away the life of those who possess it.

Proverbs 1:32

For the rest of the ignorant shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.

Proverbs 11:4

Riches shall not profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness shall deliver from death.

Proverbs 11:24-25

There are those who scatter, and more is added unto them; and there are those who withhold more than is just, but come to poverty.

Ecclesiastes 4:8

It is the man who is alone, without a successor, who has neither son nor brother; yet is there no end of all his labour; neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither saith he, For whom do I labour and bereave my soul of good? This is also vanity and sore travail.

Ecclesiastes 8:9

All this I have seen and applied my heart unto every work that is done under the sun: the time in which one man rules over another to his own hurt.

Isaiah 32:6-8

For the vile person will speak villainy, and his heart will invent iniquity to work unrighteousness and to speak scornfully against the LORD, leaving the soul of the hungry empty and taking away the drink of the thirsty.

Zephaniah 1:18

Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD's wrath, but the whole earth shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy; for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all those that dwell in the earth.

Luke 12:16-21

And he spoke a parable unto them, saying, The ground of a certain rich man brought forth plentifully;

Luke 16:1-13

And he said also unto his disciples, There was a certain rich man who had a steward, and the same was accused unto him that he had wasted his goods.

Luke 16:19

There was a certain rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen and fared sumptuously every day;

Luke 16:22-23

And it came to pass that the beggar died and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom; the rich man also died and was buried;

Luke 18:22-23

Now when Jesus heard this, he said unto him, Yet lackest thou one thing: sell all that thou hast and distribute unto the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me.

Isaiah 2:20

In that day man shall cast his idols of silver and his idols of gold (which they made each one for himself to worship) into the caves of the moles and of the bats,

Luke 19:8

Then Zacchaeus stood and said unto the Lord; Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor; and if I have taken any thing from any man by false accusation, I restore him fourfold.

1 Timothy 6:9-10

For those that desire to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts which drown men in destruction and perdition.

James 2:5-7

Hearken, my beloved brethren, Has not God chosen the poor of this world that they might be rich in faith and heirs of the kingdom which he has promised to those that love him?

James 5:1-4

Come now, Oh ye rich, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.