"But those riches perish by evil travail: and he begetteth a son, and there is nothing in his hand."
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The LORD killeth, and maketh alive: he bringeth down to the grave, and bringeth up.
And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left in thine house shall come and crouch to him for a piece of silver and a morsel of bread, and shall say, Put me, I pray thee, into one of the priests' offices, that I may eat a piece of bread.
And he took away the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king's house; he even took away all: and he took away all the shields of gold which Solomon had made.
Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance.
He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly.
Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare raiment as the clay;
Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.
Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.
Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.
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.
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.
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.
Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal:
As he came from his mother at birth, so does he go again; he gets from his work no reward which he may take away in his hand.
or those riches perish by some evil circumstance, and if he have begotten a son, there is nothing in his hand.
But those riches perish by evil travail: and he begetteth a son, and there is nothing in his hand.
\5:15\As he came into the world, naked shall he return to go as he came, and shall take nothing of his labor, which he may carry away in his hand.
Those riches perish by misfortune, and if he has fathered a son, there is nothing in his hand.
And that wealth hath been lost in an evil business, and he hath begotten a son and there is nothing in his hand!