Ecclesiastes 5:13
There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt.
Context
This verse from Ecclesiastes Chapter 5 connects to 10 cross-references. Practical wisdom about religious devotion: guard your steps when entering the house of God, let your words be few, and do not delay fulfilling vows. Qohelet observes that wealth hoarded or lost in bad ventures does not satisfy, and that …
ترجمات أخرى
There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept by the owner thereof to his hurt:
There is a painful evil I have seen under the sun: wealth kept for its possessor, for his evil.
There is a great evil which I have seen under the sun--wealth kept by the owner to be his downfall.
المراجع المتقاطعة
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But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.
And the firstborn said unto the younger, Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth …
And the younger, she also bare a son, and called his name Ben–ammi: the same is the father of the …
If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood, let us lurk privily for the innocent without …
We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil:
So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners …