4 And there were some that had indignation within themselves, and said, Why was this waste of the ointment made?
Mark 14:4 Cross References - Webster
Ecclesiastes 4:4
4 Again, I considered all labor, and every right work, that for this a man is envied by his neighbor. This is also vanity and vexation of spirit.
Ecclesiastes 5:4-8
4 (5:5)Better is it that thou shouldst not vow, than that thou shouldst vow and not pay.
5 (5:6)Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin; neither say thou before the angel, that it was an error: why should God be angry at thy voice, and destroy the work of thy hands?
6 (5:7)For in the multitude of dreams and many words there are also divers vanities: but fear thou God.
7 (5:8)If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perversion of judgment and justice in a province, wonder not at the matter: for he that is higher than the highest regardeth; and there are higher than they.
8 (5:9)Moreover, the profit of the earth is for all: the king himself is served by the field.
Malachi 1:12-13
12 But ye have profaned it, in that ye say, The table of the LORD is polluted; and the fruit of it, even his provision, is contemptible.
13 Ye said also, Behold, what a weariness is it! and ye have snuffed at it, saith the LORD of hosts; and ye brought that which was torn, and the lame, and the sick; thus ye brought an offering: should I accept this from your hand? saith the LORD.