Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

But those riches perish by evil travail: and he begetteth a son, and there is nothing in his hand.

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Bible References

Those

Ecclesiastes 2:26
For to the man who pleases him [God] gives wisdom and knowledge and joy, but to the sinner he gives travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him who pleases God. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.
Job 5:5
whose harvest the hungry eat up, and takes it even out of the thorns, and the snare gapes for their substance.
Job 20:15
He has swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again. God will cast them out of his belly.
Job 27:16
Though he heaps up silver as the dust, and prepares raiment as the clay,
Psalm 39:6
Surely every man walks in a shadow. Surely they are disquieted in vain. He heaps up, and knows not who shall gather them.
Haggai 1:9
Ye looked for much, and, lo, it came to little, and when ye brought it home, I blew upon it. Why? says LORD of hosts. Because of my house that lays waste while ye run each man to his own house.
Haggai 2:16
Through all that time, when a man came to a heap of twenty [measures], there were but ten. When he came to the wine vat to draw out fifty [vessels], there were but twenty.
Matthew 6:19
Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon the earth, where moth and rust deteriorates, and where thieves break through and steal,

And he

1 Samuel 2:6
LORD kills, and makes alive. He brings down to Sheol, and brings up.
1 Kings 14:26
And he took away the treasures of the house of LORD, and the treasures of the king's house. He even took away all. And he took away all the shields of gold which Solomon had made.
Psalm 109:9
Let his sons be fatherless, and his wife a widow.

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Matthew 6:19
Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon the earth, where moth and rust deteriorates, and where thieves break through and steal,