Ecclesiastes 5:13

Hoarding Wealth Can Backfire

¹² The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eateth 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, namely, riches kept for the owners of them to their hurt. ¹⁴ But those riches perish by evil labor: and he begetteth a son, and there is nothing in his hand.

In the World

On Earth

Under the Sun

Ecclesiastes 6:1-2

There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is 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 brought back 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 to his sons-in-law, who married his daughters, and said, Arise, depart from this place; for the LORD will destroy this city: but he seemed to his sons-in-law as one that mocked.

Genesis 19:26

But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.

Genesis 19:31-38

And the first-born said to the younger, Our father is old, and there is not a man on the 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 lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause:

Proverbs 1:19

So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; who taketh away the life of its owners.

Proverbs 1:32

For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.

Proverbs 11:4

Riches profit not in the day of wrath: but righteousness delivereth from death.

Proverbs 11:24-25

There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty.

Ecclesiastes 4:8

There is one alone, and there is not a second; yes, he hath neither child nor brother: yet is there no end of all his labor; neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither saith he, For whom do I labor, and bereave my soul of good? This is also vanity, yes, it is a grievous labor.

Ecclesiastes 8:9

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

Isaiah 32:6-8

For the vile person will speak villainy, and his heart will work iniquity, to practice hypocrisy, and to utter error against the LORD, to make empty the soul of the hungry; and he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.

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 land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he will make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.

Luke 12:16-21

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

Luke 16:1-13

And he said also to his disciples, There was a certain rich man who had a steward; and the same was accused to 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 angels into Abraham's bosom. The rich man also died, and was buried:

Luke 18:22-23

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

Isaiah 2:20

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

Luke 19:8

And Zaccheus stood, and said to 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 four-fold.

1 Timothy 6:9-10

But they that will 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, Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him?

James 5:1-4

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