Ecclesiastes 5:14 Cross References - Thomson

¹⁴ Yet these riches acquired with grievous vexation shall perish, and he hath begotten a son, and there is nothing in his hand.

⁶ The Lord killeth, and giveth life; He bringeth down to the grave, and raiseth up. ⁷ The Lord impoverished, and maketh rich; He humbleth, and he exalteth on high. ⁸ He lifteth up the needy from the ground; And raiseth the beggar from a dunghill; To seat them among a people's princes; And he causeth them to possess a throne of glory.

³⁶ And it shall be, that he who is left in thy house, will come to bow down before him, for a piece of silver, saying, Put me into one of the priestly offices that I may eat bread.

²⁶ and took all the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the treasures of the king's house, and the golden lances which David had taken out of the hand of the servants of Adraazar king of Suba, and brought to Jerusalem. All these he took,, together with the golden armour which Solomon had made, and carried them away to Egypt.

⁵ For what they have collected the righteous shall eat. Nor will they themselves be exempt from wrongs, should their power be exhausted.

¹⁵ Riches collected unrighteously shall be vomited up. Out of his house let an angel drag him. ¹⁶ May he suck the venom of dragons! and may the tongue of the viper slay him! ¹⁷ may he never see the milking of his kine, nor the distribution of his honey and butter! ¹⁸ He hath wearied himself for emptiness and vanity; for riches, of which he shall not have a taste, which are like a bur, neither to be chewed nor drunk. ¹⁹ Because he broke up the families of princes; and plundered dwellings and suffered them not to stand ²⁰ There is no security for his possessions; nor shall he be saved by what he valueth highly. ²¹ Not a scrap of his provisions is left. His good things shall not, on this account, be renewed. ²² In the fullness of his sufficiency he shall be afflicted, and all manner of distress shall come upon him. ²³ If by any means he be permitted to fill his belly; may he send against him fiery indignation, and pour upon him sorrows! ²⁴ Let him not escape from the edge of the sword! ²⁵ May the brasen bow wound him, and the dart pass through his body, and stars light on his dwellings! ²⁶ May terrors stalk around him and total darkness await him! An unkindled fire devoureth him. May his guest also afflict his family! ²⁷ may the heaven disclose his iniquities, and the earth rise up against him! ²⁸ May destruction bring his house to an end! Upon him may there come a day of wrath! ²⁹ This is the portion of a wicked man from the Lord, and this his possession, from the superintending Being.

¹⁶ Though he heap up silver as dust; and store up gold as clay: ¹⁷ the righteous shall take charge of all these; and men of truth shall enjoy his wealth.

⁶ Man indeed walketh about as an image; still he troubleth himself in vain. He heapeth up treasures and knoweth not for whom he is to gather them.

⁹ Let his children be fatherless and his wife a widow. ¹⁰ Let his sons be vagabonds and beg: let them be cast out from their dwellings. ¹¹ Let an extortioner seize all that he hath; and strangers make spoil of his labours. ¹² Let there be none to help him; nor any to compassionate his orphan children.

⁵ If thou fix thy view toward him, he is out of sight: for he is provided with wings as of an eagle; and directeth his course to the house of one who is before him.

²⁶ For to the man who is good in his sight he hath given wisdom and knowledge and joy; and to the sinner he hath given the trouble of gathering and heaping up to give to him who is good in the sight of God. So that this also is vanity and vexation of spirit.

⁹ You have looked for much, but little came; and when it was brought home I blowed upon it on this account, saith the Lord, because my house is waste and you attend every one to his own house;

¹⁶ When you came to measure twenty measures of barley, it was become ten. And when you went to the wine lake to draw off fifty measures, there were only twenty. ¹⁷ I smote you with blasting and mildew and hail in all the works of your hands when you turned not to me, saith the Lord.

¹⁹ Lay not up for yourselves treasures on the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal; ²⁰ but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust consumeth; and where thieves do not break through and steal.