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There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurtt.

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1 Tim. 6:9• ⁹But those that wish to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and many unwise and hurtful lusts, such as sink men into destruction and perdition. (1 Tim. 6:9)

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James 5:1‑2• ¹Come then, ye rich, weep, howling over your miseries that are coming on.
²Your wealth is corrupted, and your garments are become moth-eaten. (James 5:1‑2)

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Eccl. 4:8• ⁸There is one, and he hath not a second;{HR}Yea, he hath neither son nor brother;{HR}Yet is there no end of all his labour,{HR}Neither is his eye satisfied with riches.{HR}For whom then, do I labour, and deprive my soul of good?{HR}This also is vanity, yea, it is a sore travail. (Eccl. 4:8)

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Eccl. 6:1‑2• ¹There is an evil which I have seen under the sun,{HR}And it is heavy upon men:
²A man to whom God giveth riches, wealth, and honour,{HR}So that he lacketh nothing for his soul of all that he desireth,{HR}Yet God giveth him not power to eat thereof,{HR}But a stranger eateth it;{HR}This is vanity, and it is an evil disease. (Eccl. 6:1‑2)

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Eccl. 8:9• ⁹All this have I seen,{HR}And applied my heart unto every work that is done under the sun:{HR}There is a time wherein one man hath power over another to his hurt. (Eccl. 8:9)

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Gen. 13:5‑11• ⁵{i}And Lot also who went with Abram had flocks, and herds, and tents.{/i}
⁶{i}And the land could not support them, that they might dwell together, for their property was great; and they could not dwell together.{/i}
⁷{i}And there was strife between the herdsmen of Abram's cattle and the herdsmen of Lot's cattle. And the Canaanite and the Perizzite were dwelling then in the land.{/i}
⁸{i}And Abram said to Lot, I pray thee let there be no contention between me and thee, and between my herdsmen and thy herdsmen, for we are brethren.{/i}
⁹{i}Is not the whole land before thee? Separate thyself, I pray thee, from me: if to the left, then I will take the right; and if to the right, then I will take the left.{/i}
¹⁰{i}And Lot{/i} lifted up his eyes, and beheld all the plain of Jordan {i}that it was thoroughly watered, before Jehovah had destroyed Sodom and Gomorrha; as the garden of Jehovah, like the land of Egypt, as one goes to Zoar.{/i}
¹¹{i}And Lot chose for himself all the plain of the Jordan; and Lot went toward the east. And they separated the one from the other:{/i} (Gen. 13:5‑11)

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Gen. 14:16• ¹⁶And he brought back all the goods, and also brought again his brother Lot, and his goods, and the women also, and the people. (Gen. 14:16)

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Gen. 19:14,26,31‑38• ¹⁴And Lot went out, and spake unto his sons-in-law, which married his daughters, and said, Up, get you out of this place; for Jehovah will destroy this city. But he seemed as one that mocked unto his sons-in-law.
²⁶But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.
³¹{i}And the first-born said to the younger, Our father is old, and there is not a man in the land to come in to us after the manner of all the earth:{/i}
³²{i}come, let us give our father wine to drink, and let us lie with him, that we may preserve seed alive of our father.{/i}
³³{i}And they gave their father wine to drink that night. And the first-born went in, and lay with her father, and he did not know of her lying down, nor of her rising.{/i}
³⁴{i}And it came to pass on the next day that the first-born said to the younger, Lo, I lay last night with my father: let us give him wine to drink to-night also, and go thou in, lie with him, that we may preserve seed alive of our father.{/i}
³⁵{i}And they gave their father wine to drink that night also. And the younger arose, and lay with him; and he did not know of her lying down, nor of her rising.{/i}
³⁶{i}And both the daughters of Lot were with child by their father.{/i}
³⁷{i}And the first-born bore a son, and called his name Moab: the same is the father of the Moabites to this day.{/i}
³⁸{i}And the younger, she also bore a son, and called his name Ben-ammi; the same is the father of the children of Ammon to this day.{/i} (Gen. 19:14,26,31‑38)

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Prov. 1:11‑13,19,32• ¹¹If they say, Come with us, let us lay wait for blood,{HR}Let us lurk privily for the innocent without cause;
¹²Let us swallow them up alive as Sheol,{HR}And whole as those that go down into the pit.
¹³We shall find all precious substance,{HR}We shall fill our houses with spoil:
¹⁹So (are) the paths of every one that is greedy of gain:{HR}It taketh away the life of its owners.
³²For the turning back of the simple shall slay them,{HR}And the prosperity of fools shall destroy them. (Prov. 1:11‑13,19,32)

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Prov. 11:4,24‑25• ⁴Wealth profiteth not in the day of wrath;{HR}But righteousness delivereth from death.
²⁴There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth;{HR}And there is that withholdeth more than is right,{HR}But only to want.
²⁵The blessing soul shall be made fat;{HR}And he that watereth shall be watered also himself. (Prov. 11:4,24‑25)

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Isa. 2:20• ²⁰In that day a man shall cast away his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which they made for him to worship, to the moles and to the bats; (Isa. 2:20)

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Isa. 32:6‑8• ⁶For the vile person will speak villainy, and his heart will work iniquity, to practice profaneness, and to utter error against Jehovah, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and to cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.
⁷The instruments also of the churl [are] evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the meek with lying words, even when the needy speaketh right.
⁸But the liberal deviseth liberal things; and in liberal things doth he stand. (Isa. 32:6‑8)

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Zeph. 1:18• ¹⁸Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of Jehovah’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. (Zeph. 1:18)

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Luke 12:16‑21• ¹⁶{i}And{/i} he spoke a parable to them, saying, The land of a certain rich man brought forth plentifully;
¹⁷and he reasoned within himself, saying, What shall I do, for I have not [a place] where I shall lay up my fruits?
¹⁸{i}And{/i} he said, This will I do; I will take away my granaries, and build greater; and there I will lay up all my produce and my good things;
¹⁹and I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much good things laid up for many years; repose thyself; eat, drink, be merry.
²⁰But God said unto him, Fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee; and whose shall be what thou hast prepared?
²¹Thus is he who layeth up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God. (Luke 12:16‑21)

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Luke 16:1‑13,19,22‑23• ¹{i}And he said also to [his] disciples,{/i} There was a certain rich man who had a steward, and he was accused unto him as wasting his possessions.
²And having called him, he said to him, What [is] this that I hear of thee? Give the reckoning of thy stewardship, for thou canst be no longer steward.
³And the steward said within himself, What shall I do? for my lord is taking the stewardship from me; I am not able to dig; I am ashamed to beg.
⁴I know what I will do, that when I shall have been removed from the stewardship I may be received into their houses.
⁵And he called each of his own lord's debtors, and said unto the first, How much owest thou unto my lord?
⁶And he said, A hundred measures of oil. And he said unto him, Take thy bill and sit down quickly, and write fifty.
⁷Then he said to another, And thou, how much owest thou? And he said, A hundred measures of wheat. And he said unto him, Take thy bill and write eighty.
⁸And the lord praised the unrighteous steward, because he had done prudently. For the sons of this age are in respect of their own generation more prudent than the sons of light.
⁹And I say unto you, make to yourselves friends with the mammon of unrighteousness, that, when it fails, ye may be received into everlasting habitations.
¹⁰He that is faithful in the least is faithful also in much; and he that is unrighteous in the least is unrighteous also in much.
¹¹If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who shall entrust to you the true?
¹²and if ye have not been faithful in that which is another's, who shall give unto you your own?
¹³No servant can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and will love the other, or he will cleave to the one and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
¹⁹Now there was a rich man and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, making good cheer in splendour every day.
²²And it came to pass that the poor man died, and was carried away by the angels into Abraham's bosom. And the rich man also died, and was buried.
²³And in Hades lifting up his eyes, being in torments, he seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom. (Luke 16:1‑13,19,22‑23)

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Luke 18:22‑23• ²²And Jesus on hearing [this] said to him, One thing is lacking to thee yet: sell all that thou hast and distribute to poor [men], and thou shalt have treasure in the heavens; and come, follow me.
²³But he on hearing these things became very sorrowful, for he was exceedingly rich. (Luke 18:22‑23)

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Luke 19:8• ⁸And Zacchaeus stood and said to the Lord, Behold, Lord, the half of my goods I give to the poor; and if I have by false accusation exacted anything of any man, I restore fourfold. (Luke 19:8)

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1 Tim. 6:9‑10• ⁹But those that wish to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and many unwise and hurtful lusts, such as sink men into destruction and perdition.
¹⁰For a root of all evils is the love of money, which some eagerly seeking were led astray from the faith and pierced themselves through with many pains. (1 Tim. 6:9‑10)

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James 2:5‑7• ⁵Hear, my beloved brethren; did not God choose the poor as to the world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he promised to those that love him?
⁶But ye dishonoured the poor [man]. Do not the rich oppress you, and they drag you before tribunals?
⁷Do not they blaspheme the worthy name that was called on you? (James 2:5‑7)

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James 5:1‑4• ¹Come then, ye rich, weep, howling over your miseries that are coming on.
²Your wealth is corrupted, and your garments are become moth-eaten.
³Your gold and [your] silver are rusted through, and their rust shall be for a witness to you, and shall eat your flesh as fire. Ye laid up treasure in [the] last days.
⁴Behold, the hire of the labourers who reaped your fields, that is kept back of you crieth out, and the cries of those that reaped entered into the ears of Jehovah of hosts. (James 5:1‑4)

• {v.13-14} Carefully the Preacher has watched the miser heaping up ever, and robbing himself of all natural enjoyment, until some disaster―“evil travail”―sweeps away in a moment his accumulations, and his son is left a pauper. (“Ecclesiastes 5” by F.C. Jennings)

J. N. Darby Translation

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There is a grievous evil that I have seen under the sun: riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt;

W. Kelly Translation

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There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun,{HR}Riches kept by the owner thereof to his hurt;