Cross references

Ecclesiastes 5:14

or wealth lost in a failed venture, so when that man has a son there is nothing to pass on.

Ecclesiastes 5:14 BSB

Ecclesiastes 5:14 has 13 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 1 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Ecclesiastes 2:26 (4 votes) and Job 5:5 (3 votes). 20 other verses point back to it. It links with 15 other books, from 1 Samuel 2 to 1 Peter 1.

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Which verses does Ecclesiastes 5:14 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. To the man who is pleasing in His sight, He gives wisdom and knowledge and joy, but to the sinner He assigns the task of gathering and accumulating that which he will hand over to one who pleases God. This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind.

  2. Job 5:53 votes

    The hungry consume his harvest, taking it even from the thorns, and the thirsty pant after his wealth.

  3. He swallows wealth but vomits it out; God will force it from his stomach. He will suck the poison of cobras; the fangs of a viper will kill him. …

  4. When you glance at wealth, it disappears, for it makes wings for itself and flies like an eagle to the sky.

  5. Haggai 1:93 votes

    You expected much, but behold, it amounted to little. And what you brought home, I blew away. Why? declares the LORD of Hosts. Because My house still lies in ruins, while each of you is busy with his own house.

  6. from that time, when one came expecting a heap of twenty ephahs of grain, there were but ten. When one came to the winepress to draw out fifty baths, there were but twenty. I struck you—all the work of your hands—with blight, mildew, and hail, but you did not turn to Me, declares the LORD.

  7. Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal.

  8. The LORD brings death and gives life; He brings down to Sheol and raises up. The LORD sends poverty and wealth; He humbles and He exalts. …

  9. And everyone left in your house will come and bow down to him for a piece of silver or a morsel of bread, pleading, “Please appoint me to some priestly office so that I can eat a piece of bread.”’”

  10. He seized the treasures of the house of the LORD and of the royal palace. He took everything, including all the gold shields that Solomon had made.

  11. Psalm 39:62 votes

Which verses point to Ecclesiastes 5:14?

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