Ecclesiastes 5:14 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁴But those riches perish by evil travail: and he begetteth a son, and there is nothing in his hand.

Ecclesiastes 5:14 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Haggai 2:16-17
Since those days were, when one came to an heap of twenty measures, there were but ten: when one came to the pressfat for to draw out fifty vessels out of the press, there were but twenty. …
Matthew 6:19-20
Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: …
Haggai 1:9
Ye looked for much, and, lo, it came to little; and when ye brought it home, I did blow upon it. Why? saith the LORD of hosts. Because of mine house that is waste, and ye run every man unto his own house.
Proverbs 23:5
Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.
Ecclesiastes 2:26
For God giveth to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he giveth travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him that is good before God. This also is vanity and vexation of spirit.

Topics

Avarice Beneficence Capital and Labor Care Carnal Mindedness Covetousness Liberality Love

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 9-17)

Solomon had shown the vanity of pleasure, gaiety, and fine works, of honour, power, and royal dignity; and there is many a covetous worldling that will agree with him, and speak as slightly as he does of these things; but money, he thinks, is a substantial thing, and if he can but have enough of that he is happy. This is the mistake which Solomon attacks, and attempts to rectify, in these verses;…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 14)

13-14. Proofs of God’s judgments even in this world (Pr 11:31). The rich oppressor’s wealth provokes enemies, robbers, &c. Then, after having kept it for an expected son, he loses it beforehand by misfortune (“by evil travail”), and the son is born to be heir of poverty. Ec 2:19, 23 gives another aspect of the same subject.