Thematic Bible: Vanity of heaping up
Thematic Bible
Gold » Vanity of heaping up
I also amassed silver and gold for myself, and the treasure of kings and provinces. I gathered male and female singers for myself, and many concubines, the delights of men.
Verse Concepts
When I considered all that I had accomplished and what I had labored to achieve, I found everything to be futile and a pursuit of the wind. There was nothing to be gained under the sun.
Verse Concepts
Riches » Vanity of heaping up
Indeed, they frantically rush around in vain,
gathering possessions
without knowing who will get them.
The one who loves money is never satisfied with money, and whoever loves wealth [is] never [satisfied] with income. This too is futile. When good things increase, the ones who consume them multiply; what, then, is the profit to the owner, except to gaze at them with his eyes?