Ecclesiastes 5:14 Cross References

Ecclesiastes 5:14

14: or they are put into risky investments that turn sour, and everything is lost. In the end, there is nothing left to pass on to one's children.

Ecclesiastes 2:26

  1. God gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy to those who please him. But if a sinner becomes wealthy, God takes the wealth away and gives it to those who please him. Even this, however, is meaningless, like chasing the wind.

Matthew 6:19

  1. "Don't store up treasures here on earth, where they can be eaten by moths and get rusty, and where thieves break in and steal.
  2. Store your treasures in heaven, where they will never become moth-eaten or rusty and where they will be safe from thieves.

Proverbs 23:5

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

Haggai 1:9

  1. You hoped for rich harvests, but they were poor. And when you brought your harvest home, I blew it away. Why? Because my house lies in ruins, says the LORD Almighty, while you are all busy building your own fine houses.

Haggai 2:16

  1. When you hoped for a twenty-bushel crop, you harvested only ten. When you expected to draw fifty gallons from the winepress, you found only twenty.
  2. I sent blight and mildew and hail to destroy all the produce of your labor. Yet, even so, you refused to return to me, says the LORD.

1 Samuel 2:6

  1. The LORD brings both death and life; he brings some down to the grave but raises others up.
  2. The LORD makes one poor and another rich; he brings one down and lifts another up.
  3. He lifts the poor from the dust--yes, from a pile of ashes! He treats them like princes, placing them in seats of honor. "For all the earth is the LORD's, and he has set the world in order.

Job 5:5

  1. Their harvests are stolen, and their wealth satisfies the thirst of many others, not themselves!

Psalms 109:9

  1. May his children become fatherless, and may his wife become a widow.
  2. May his children wander as beggars; may they be evicted from their ruined homes.
  3. May creditors seize his entire estate, and strangers take all he has earned.
  4. Let no one be kind to him; let no one pity his fatherless children.

Job 20:15

  1. He will vomit the wealth he swallowed. God won't let him keep it down.
  2. He will suck the poison of snakes. The viper will kill him.
  3. He will never again enjoy abundant streams of olive oil or rivers of milk and honey.
  4. His labors will not be rewarded. His wealth will bring him no joy.
  5. For he oppressed the poor and left them destitute. He foreclosed on their homes.

1 Samuel 2:36

  1. Then all of your descendants will bow before his descendants, begging for money and food. `Please,' they will say, `give us jobs among the priests so we will have enough to eat.'"

1 Kings 14:26

  1. He ransacked the Temple of the LORD and the royal palace and stole everything, including all the gold shields Solomon had made.

Job 27:16

  1. "Evil people may have all the money in the world, and they may store away mounds of clothing.
  2. But the righteous will wear that clothing, and the innocent will divide all that money.

Psalms 39:6

  1. We are merely moving shadows, and all our busy rushing ends in nothing. We heap up wealth for someone else to spend.
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