Ecclesiastes 5:11 Cross References

Ecclesiastes 5:11

11: The more you have, the more people come to help you spend it. So what is the advantage of wealth--except perhaps to watch it run through your fingers!

1 John 2:16

  1. For the world offers only the lust for physical pleasure, the lust for everything we see, and pride in our possessions. These are not from the Father. They are from this evil world.

Habakkuk 2:13

  1. Has not the LORD Almighty promised that the wealth of nations will turn to ashes? They work so hard, but all in vain!

1 Kings 5:13

  1. Then King Solomon enlisted 30,000 laborers from all Israel.
  2. He sent them to Lebanon in shifts, 10,000 every month, so that each man would be one month in Lebanon and two months at home. Adoniram was in charge of this labor force.
  3. Solomon also enlisted 70,000 common laborers, 80,000 stonecutters in the hill country,
  4. and 3,600 foremen to supervise the work.

Genesis 12:16

  1. Then Pharaoh gave Abram many gifts because of her--sheep, cattle, donkeys, male and female servants, and camels.

Nehemiah 5:17

  1. I asked for nothing, even though I regularly fed 150 Jewish officials at my table, besides all the visitors from other lands!
  2. The provisions required at my expense for each day were one ox, six fat sheep, and a large number of domestic fowl. And every ten days we needed a large supply of all kinds of wine. Yet I refused to claim the governor's food allowance because the people were already having a difficult time.

Joshua 7:21

  1. For I saw a beautiful robe imported from Babylon, two hundred silver coins, and a bar of gold weighing more than a pound. I wanted them so much that I took them. They are hidden in the ground beneath my tent, with the silver buried deeper than the rest."
  2. So Joshua sent some men to make a search. They ran to the tent and found the stolen goods hidden there, just as Achan had said, with the silver buried beneath the rest.
  3. They took the things from the tent and brought them to Joshua and all the Israelites. Then they laid them on the ground in the presence of the LORD.
  4. Then Joshua and all the Israelites took Achan, the silver, the robe, the bar of gold, his sons, daughters, cattle, donkeys, sheep, tent, and everything he had, and they brought them to the valley of Achor.
  5. Then Joshua said to Achan, "Why have you brought trouble on us? The LORD will now bring trouble on you." And all the Israelites stoned Achan and his family and burned their bodies.

Genesis 13:5

  1. Now Lot, who was traveling with Abram, was also very wealthy with sheep, cattle, and many tents.
  2. But the land could not support both Abram and Lot with all their flocks and herds living so close together. There were too many animals for the available pastureland.
  3. So an argument broke out between the herdsmen of Abram and Lot. At that time Canaanites and Perizzites were also living in the land.

Proverbs 23:5

  1. For riches can disappear as though they had the wings of a bird!

Psalms 119:36

  1. Give me an eagerness for your decrees; do not inflict me with love for money!
  2. Turn my eyes from worthless things, and give me life through your word.

Ecclesiastes 11:9

  1. Young man, it's wonderful to be young! Enjoy every minute of it. Do everything you want to do; take it all in. But remember that you must give an account to God for everything you do.

Genesis 13:2

  1. for Abram was very rich in livestock, silver, and gold.

Jeremiah 17:11

  1. Like a bird that hatches eggs she has not laid, so are those who get their wealth by unjust means. Sooner or later they will lose their riches and, at the end of their lives, will become poor old fools.

1 Kings 4:22

  1. The daily food requirements for Solomon's palace were 150 bushels of choice flour and 300 bushels of meal,
  2. ten oxen from the fattening pens, twenty pasture-fed cattle, one hundred sheep or goats, as well as deer, gazelles, roebucks, and choice fowl.

Ecclesiastes 6:9

  1. Enjoy what you have rather than desiring what you don't have. Just dreaming about nice things is meaningless; it is like chasing the wind.
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