But those riches perish by evil travail: and he begets a son, and there is nothing in his hand. Treasury of Scripture those Ecclesiastes 2:26 For God gives to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he gives travail... Job 5:5 Whose harvest the hungry eats up, and takes it even out of the thorns, and the robber swallows up their substance. Job 20:15-29 He has swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly... Job 27:16,17 Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare raiment as the clay... Psalm 39:6 Surely every man walks in a vain show: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heaps up riches, and knows not who shall gather them. Proverbs 23:5 Will you set your eyes on that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven. Haggai 1:9 You looked for much, and, see it came to little; and when you brought it home, I did blow on it. Why? said the LORD of hosts... Haggai 2:16,17 Since those days were, when one came to an heap of twenty measures, there were but ten... Matthew 6:19,20 Lay not up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust does corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal... and he 1 Samuel 2:6-8,36 The LORD kills, and makes alive: he brings down to the grave, and brings up... 1 Kings 14:26 And he took away the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king's house; he even took away all... Psalm 109:9-12 Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow...
Context Wealth is Meaningless
8If you see the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter: for he that is higher than the highest regards; and there be higher than they. 9Moreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king himself is served by the field. 10He that loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loves abundance with increase: this is also vanity. 11When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: and what good is there to the owners thereof, saving the beholding of them with their eyes? 12The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep. 13There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt. 14But those riches perish by evil travail: and he begets a son, and there is nothing in his hand. 15As he came forth of his mother's womb, naked shall he return to go as he came, and shall take nothing of his labor, which he may carry away in his hand. 16And this also is a sore evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go: and what profit has he that has labored for the wind? 17All his days also he eats in darkness, and he has much sorrow and wrath with his sickness. 18Behold that which I have seen: it is good and comely for one to eat and to drink, and to enjoy the good of all his labor that he takes under the sun all the days of his life, which God gives him: for it is his portion. 19Every man also to whom God has given riches and wealth, and has given him power to eat thereof, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his labor; this is the gift of God. 20For he shall not much remember the days of his life; because God answers him in the joy of his heart. Parallel Verses American Standard Version
and those riches perish by evil adventure; and if he hath begotten a son, there is nothing in his hand.
Douay-Rheims Bible
For they are lost with very great affliction: he hath begotten a son, who shall be in extremity of want.
Darby Bible Translation
or those riches perish by some evil circumstance, and if he have begotten a son, there is nothing in his hand.
King James Bible
But those riches perish by evil travail: and he begetteth a son, and there is nothing in his hand.
Young's Literal Translation
And that wealth hath been lost in an evil business, and he hath begotten a son and there is nothing in his hand!
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