Ecclesiastes 5:13New American Standard Bible (NASB ©1995) [2]
— There is a grievous evil [which] I have seen under the sun: riches being hoarded by their owner to his hurt.
King James Version (KJV 1769) [2]
— There is a sore evil [which] I have seen under the sun, [namely], riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt.
English Revised Version (ERV 1885)
— There is a grievous evil, which I have seen under the sun, [namely], riches kept by the owner thereof to his hurt:
American Standard Version (ASV 1901) [2]
— There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun, [namely], riches kept by the owner thereof to his hurt:
Webster's Revision of the KJB (WEB 1833)
— There is a grievous evil [which] I have seen under the sun, [namely], riches kept for the owners of them to their hurt.
Darby's Translation (DBY 1890)
— There is a grievous evil that I have seen under the sun: riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt;
Rotherham's Emphasized Bible (EBR 1902)
— Here was an incurable evil, I had seen under the sun, riches kept by the owner thereof, to his hurt;
Young's Literal Translation (YLT 1898)
— There is a painful evil I have seen under the sun: wealth kept for its possessor, for his evil.
Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision (DR 1750)
— There is also another grievous evil, which I have seen under the sun: riches kept to the hurt of the owner.
Geneva Bible (GNV 1560)
— There is an euill sickenes that I haue seene vnder the sunne: to wit, riches reserued to the owners thereof for their euill.
Original King James Bible (AV 1611) [2]
— There is a sore euill [which] I haue seene vnder the Sun, [namely] riches kept for the owners therof to their hurt.
Lamsa Bible (1957)
— There is also another grievous evil which I have seen under the sun, riches kept by the owner thereof to his own hurt.
Brenton Greek Septuagint (LXX, Restored Names)
— There is an infirmity which I have seen under the sun, [namely], wealth kept for its owner to his hurt.
Full Hebrew Names / Holy Name KJV (2008) [2] [3]
— There is a sore evil [which] I have seen under the sun, [namely], riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt. |
There is
3426 {3426} Primeיֵשׁyesh{yaysh}
Perhaps from an unused root meaning to stand out, or exist; entity; used adverbially or as a copula for the substantive verb ( H1961); there is or are (or any other form of the verb to be, as may suit the connection).
a sore
2470 {2470} Primeחָלָהchalah{khaw-law'}
A primitive root (compare H2342, H2490); properly to be rubbed or worn; hence (figuratively) to be weak, sick, afflicted; or (causatively) to grieve, make sick; also to stroke (in flattering), entreat.
z8802 <8802> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851) Mood - Participle Active (See H8814) Count - 5386
evil
7451 {7451} Primeרָעra`{rah}
From H7489; bad or (as noun) evil (naturally or morally). This includes the second (feminine) form; as adjective or noun.
[ which] I have seen
7200 {7200} Primeרָאָהra'ah{raw-aw'}
A primitive root; to see, literally or figuratively (in numerous applications, direct and implied, transitively, intransitively and causatively).
z8804 <8804> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851) Mood - Perfect (See H8816) Count - 12562
under
x8478 (8478) Complementתַּחַתtachath{takh'-ath}
From the same as H8430; the bottom (as depressed); only adverbially below (often with prepositional prefix underneath), in lieu of, etc.
the sun,
8121 {8121} Primeשֶׁמֶשׁshemesh{sheh'-mesh}
From an unused root meaning to be brilliant; the sun; by implication the east; figuratively a ray, that is, (architecturally) a notched battlement.
[ namely], riches
6239
kept
8104 {8104} Primeשָׁמַרshamar{shaw-mar'}
A primitive root; properly to hedge about (as with thorns), that is, guard; generally to protect, attend to, etc.
z8803 <8803> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851) Mood - Participle Passive (See H8815) Count - 1415
for the owners
1167 {1167} Primeבַּעַלba`al{bah'-al}
From H1166; a master; hence a husband, or (figuratively) owner (often used with another noun in modifications of this latter sense.
thereof to their hurt.
7451 {7451} Primeרָעra`{rah}
From H7489; bad or (as noun) evil (naturally or morally). This includes the second (feminine) form; as adjective or noun. |
Ecclesiastes 5:13-14
_ _ Proofs of God’s judgments even in this world (Proverbs 11:31). The rich oppressor’s wealth provokes enemies, robbers, etc. 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. Ecclesiastes 2:19, Ecclesiastes 2:23 gives another aspect of the same subject. |
Ecclesiastes 5:13
To their hurt — Because they frequently are the occasions both of their present and eternal destruction. |
Ecclesiastes 5:13
There is a grievous evil [which] I have seen under the sun, [namely], riches (k) kept for the owners of them to their hurt.
(k) When covetous men heap up riches, which turn to their destruction. |
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Ecclesiastes 4:8 There is one [alone], and [there is] not a second; yea, he hath neither child nor brother: yet [is there] no end of all his labour; neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither [saith he], For whom do I labour, and bereave my soul of good? This [is] also vanity, yea, it [is] a sore travail.
Ecclesiastes 6:1-2 There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it [is] common among men: ... A man to whom God hath given riches, wealth, and honour, so that he wanteth nothing for his soul of all that he desireth, yet God giveth him not power to eat thereof, but a stranger eateth it: this [is] vanity, and it [is] an evil disease.
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Ecclesiastes 8:9 All this have I seen, and applied my heart unto every work that is done under the sun: [there is] a time wherein one man ruleth over another to his own hurt.
Genesis 13:5-11 And Lot also, which went with Abram, had flocks, and herds, and tents. ... Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan; and Lot journeyed east: and they separated themselves the one from the other.
Genesis 14:16 And he brought back all the goods, and also brought again his brother Lot, and his goods, and the women also, and the people.
Genesis 19:14 And Lot went out, and spake unto his sons in law, which married his daughters, and said, Up, get you out of this place; for the LORD will destroy this city. But he seemed as one that mocked unto his sons in law.
Genesis 19:26 But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.
Genesis 19:31-38 And the firstborn said unto the younger, Our father [is] old, and [there is] not a man in the earth to come in unto us after the manner of all the earth: ... And the younger, she also bare a son, and called his name Benammi: the same [is] the father of the children of Ammon unto this day.
Proverbs 1:11-13 If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause: ... We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil:
Proverbs 1:19 So [are] the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; [which] taketh away the life of the owners thereof.
Proverbs 1:32 For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.
Proverbs 11:4 Riches profit not in the day of wrath: but righteousness delivereth from death.
Proverbs 11:24-25 There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and [there is] that withholdeth more than is meet, but [it tendeth] to poverty. ... The liberal soul shall be made fat: and he that watereth shall be watered also himself.
Isaiah 2:20 In that day a man shall cast his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made [each one] for himself to worship, to the moles and to the bats;
Isaiah 32:6-8 For the vile person will speak villany, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and to utter error against the LORD, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail. ... But the liberal deviseth liberal things; and by liberal things shall he stand.
Zephaniah 1:18 Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the LORD'S wrath; but the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy: for he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.
Luke 12:16-21 And he spake a parable unto them, saying, The ground of a certain rich man brought forth plentifully: ... So [is] he that layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God.
Luke 16:1-13 And he said also unto his disciples, There was a certain rich man, which had a steward; and the same was accused unto him that he had wasted his goods. ... No servant can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
Luke 16:19 There was a certain rich man, which was clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day:
Luke 16:22-23 And it came to pass, that the beggar died, and was carried by the angels into Abraham's bosom: the rich man also died, and was buried; ... And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.
Luke 18:22-23 Now when Jesus heard these things, he said unto him, Yet lackest thou one thing: sell all that thou hast, and distribute unto the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, follow me. ... And when he heard this, he was very sorrowful: for he was very rich.
Luke 19:8 And Zacchaeus stood, and said unto the Lord; Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor; and if I have taken any thing from any man by false accusation, I restore [him] fourfold.
1 Timothy 6:9-10 But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and [into] many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition. ... For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
James 2:5-7 Hearken, my beloved brethren, Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him? ... Do not they blaspheme that worthy name by the which ye are called?
James 5:1-4 Go to now, [ye] rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon [you]. ... Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.
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