Ecclesiastes 5:13

Hoarding Wealth Can Backfire

¹² A labouring man sleepeth sweetly, whether it be little or much that he eateth; but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep. ¹³ Yet is there a sore plague, which I have seen under the sun: namely, riches kept to the hurt of him that hath them in possession. ¹⁴ For oft times they perish with his great misery and trouble: and if he have a child it getteth nothing.

In the World

On Earth

Under the Sun

Ecclesiastes 6:1-2

There is yet a plague under the Sun, and it is a general thing among men:

Genesis 13:5-11

Lot also, which went with him, had sheep, cattle and tents:

Genesis 14:16

and brought again all the goods and also his brother Lot, and his goods; the women also and the people.

Genesis 19:14

And Lot went out and spake unto his sons-in-law, which should have married his daughters, and said, "Stand up and get you out of this place, for the LORD will destroy the city!" But he seemed as though he had mocked, unto his sons-in-law.

Genesis 19:26

And Lot's wife looked behind her, and was turned in to a pillar of salt.

Genesis 19:31-38

Then said the elder unto the younger, "Our father is old, and there are no more men in the earth to come in unto us after the manner of all the world.

Proverbs 1:11-13

if they entice thee, and say, "Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, and lurk privily for the innocent without a cause:

Proverbs 1:19

These are the ways of all such as be covetous, that one would ravish another's life.

Proverbs 1:32

for the turning away of the unwise shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall be their own destruction.

Proverbs 11:4

Riches help not in the day of vengeance; but righteousness delivereth from death.

Proverbs 11:24-25

Some man giveth out his goods, and is richer; but the niggard, having enough, will depart from nothing, and yet is ever in poverty.

Ecclesiastes 4:8

There is one man, no more but himself alone, having neither child nor brother: yet is there no end of his careful travail, his eyes cannot be satisfied with riches. Yet, doth he not remember himself, and say, "For whom do I take such travail? For whose pleasure do I thus consume away my life?" This is also a vain and miserable thing.

Ecclesiastes 8:9

All these things have I considered, and applied my mind unto every work that is under the Sun: how one man hath lordship upon another to his own harm.

Isaiah 32:6-8

But the churl will be churlishly minded, and his heart will work evil and play the hypocrite, and imagine abominations against God, to make the hungry lean, and withhold drink from the thirsty.

Zephaniah 1:18

Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in that wrathful day of the LORD, but the whole land shall be consumed through the fire of his jealousy: for he shall soon make clean riddance of all them that dwell in the land.

Luke 12:16-21

And he put forth a similitude unto them, saying, "The ground of a certain rich man brought forth fruits plenteously,

Luke 16:1-13

And he said also unto his disciples, "There was a certain rich man, which had a steward, that was accused unto him that he had wasted his goods.

Luke 16:19

"There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple, and fine bysse, and fared deliciously every day.

Luke 16:22-23

And it fortuned that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom: The rich man also died, and was buried in hell.

Luke 18:22-23

When Jesus heard that, he said unto him, "Yet lackest thou one thing. Sell all that thou hast, and distribute it unto the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven; and come, and follow me."

Isaiah 2:20

Then, then shall man cast away his gods of silver and gold - which he nevertheless had made to honour them - unto moles and bats

Luke 19:8

And Zacchaeus stood forth and said unto the Lord, "Behold Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor, and if I have done any man wrong, I will restore him four fold."

1 Timothy 6:9-10

They that will be rich, fall into temptation and snares, and into many foolish and noisome lusts, which drown men in perdition and destruction.

James 2:5-7

Hearken, my dear beloved brethren, hath not God chosen the poor of this world, which are rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom, which he promised to them that love him?

James 5:1-4

Go to now, ye rich men. Weep, and howl on your wretchedness that shall come upon you.