Thematic Bible: Vanity of heaping up
Thematic Bible
Gold » Vanity of heaping up
I also gathered to myself silver and gold--the royal and provincial treasuries. I acquired for myself male and female singers, as well as the delight of {men}, {voluptuous concubines}.
Verse Concepts
Yet when I considered all the effort which I expended and the toil with which I toiled to do, then behold, "Everything [is] vanity and chasing wind! There is nothing profitable under the sun!"
Verse Concepts
Riches » Vanity of heaping up
Surely a man walks about as a [mere] {shadow}; surely in vain they bustle about. He heaps up [possessions] but does not know who [will] gather them [in].
Verse Concepts
Whoever loves money is not satisfied [with] money, and whoever loves wealth [is] not [satisfied with] profit. This also [is] vanity! When prosperity increases, those who consume it increase. {So its owner gains nothing, except to see his wealth before it is spent}.