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Ecclesiastes 5

Eccl. 5:14 KJV (With Strong’s)

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But those riches
`osher (Hebrew #6239)
wealth
KJV usage: X far (richer), riches.
Pronounce: o'-sher
Origin: from 6238
perish
'abad (Hebrew #6)
properly, to wander away, i.e. lose oneself; by implication to perish (causative, destroy)
KJV usage: break, destroy(- uction), + not escape, fail, lose, (cause to, make) perish, spend, X and surely, take, be undone, X utterly, be void of, have no way to flee.
Pronounce: aw-bad'
Origin: a primitive root
by evil
ra` (Hebrew #7451)
bad or (as noun) evil (natural or moral)
KJV usage: adversity, affliction, bad, calamity, + displease(-ure), distress, evil((- favouredness), man, thing), + exceedingly, X great, grief(-vous), harm, heavy, hurt(-ful), ill (favoured), + mark, mischief(-vous), misery, naught(-ty), noisome, + not please, sad(-ly), sore, sorrow, trouble, vex, wicked(-ly, -ness, one), worse(-st), wretchedness, wrong. (Incl. feminine raaah; as adjective or noun.).
Pronounce: rah
Origin: from 7489
travail
`inyan (Hebrew #6045)
ado, i.e. (generally) employment or (specifically) an affair
KJV usage: business, travail.
Pronounce: in-yawn'
Origin: from 6031
: and he begetteth
yalad (Hebrew #3205)
to bear young; causatively, to beget; medically, to act as midwife; specifically, to show lineage
KJV usage: bear, beget, birth((-day)), born, (make to) bring forth (children, young), bring up, calve, child, come, be delivered (of a child), time of delivery, gender, hatch, labour, (do the office of a) midwife, declare pedigrees, be the son of, (woman in, woman that) travail(-eth, -ing woman).
Pronounce: yaw-lad'
Origin: a primitive root
a son
ben (Hebrew #1121)
a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or condition, etc., (like 1, 251, etc.))
KJV usage: + afflicted, age, (Ahoh-) (Ammon-) (Hachmon-) (Lev-)ite, (anoint-)ed one, appointed to, (+) arrow, (Assyr-) (Babylon-) (Egypt-) (Grec-)ian, one born, bough, branch, breed, + (young) bullock, + (young) calf, X came up in, child, colt, X common, X corn, daughter, X of first, + firstborn, foal, + very fruitful, + postage, X in, + kid, + lamb, (+) man, meet, + mighty, + nephew, old, (+) people, + rebel, + robber, X servant born, X soldier, son, + spark, + steward, + stranger, X surely, them of, + tumultuous one, + valiant(-est), whelp, worthy, young (one), youth.
Pronounce: bane
Origin: from {SI 11129}1129{/SI}
, and there is nothing
muwmah (Hebrew #3972)
properly, a speck or point, i.e. (by implication) something; with negative, nothing
KJV usage: fault, + no(-ught), ought, somewhat, any ((no-))thing.
Pronounce: meh-oo'-maw
Origin: apparently a form of 3971
in his hand
yad (Hebrew #3027)
a hand (the open one (indicating power, means, direction, etc.), in distinction from 3709, the closed one); used (as noun, adverb, etc.) in a great variety of applications, both literally and figuratively, both proximate and remote (as follows)
KJV usage: (+ be) able, X about, + armholes, at, axletree, because of, beside, border, X bounty, + broad, (broken-)handed, X by, charge, coast, + consecrate, + creditor, custody, debt, dominion, X enough, + fellowship, force, X from, hand(-staves, -y work), X he, himself, X in, labour, + large, ledge, (left-)handed, means, X mine, ministry, near, X of, X order, ordinance, X our, parts, pain, power, X presumptuously, service, side, sore, state, stay, draw with strength, stroke, + swear, terror, X thee, X by them, X themselves, X thine own, X thou, through, X throwing, + thumb, times, X to, X under, X us, X wait on, (way-)side, where, + wide, X with (him, me, you), work, + yield, X yourselves.
Pronounce: yawd
Origin: a primitive word
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Cross References

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Eccl. 2:26• 26For he 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 in God's sight. This also is vanity and pursuit of the wind. (Eccl. 2:26)
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Job 5:5• 5Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh even out of the thorns; and the snare gapeth for his substance. (Job 5:5)
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Job 20:15‑29• 15He hath swallowed down riches, but he shall vomit them up again: *God shall cast them out of his belly.
 16He shall suck the poison of asps; the viper's tongue shall kill him.
 17He shall not see streams, rivers, brooks of honey and butter.
 18That which he laboured for shall he restore, and not swallow down; its restitution shall be according to the value, and he shall not rejoice therein.
 19For he hath oppressed, hath forsaken the poor; he hath violently taken away a house that he did not build.
 20Because he knew no rest in his craving, he shall save nought of what he most desired.
 21Nothing escaped his greediness; therefore his prosperity shall not endure.
 22In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits; every hand of the wretched shall come upon him.
 23It shall be that, to fill his belly, he will cast his fierce anger upon him, and will rain it upon him into his flesh.
 24If he have fled from the iron weapon, the bow of brass shall strike him through.
 25He draweth it forth; it cometh out of his body, and the glittering point out of his gall: terrors are upon him.
 26All darkness is laid up for his treasures: a fire not blown shall devour him; it shall feed upon what is left in his tent.
 27The heavens shall reveal his iniquity, and the earth shall rise up against him.
 28The increase of his house shall depart, flowing away in the day of his anger.
 29This is the portion of the wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed to him by *God. (Job 20:15‑29)
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Job 27:16‑17• 16Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare clothing as the clay;
 17He may prepare it, but the just shall put it on; and the innocent shall divide the silver. (Job 27:16‑17)
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Psa. 39:6• 6Verily, man walketh in a vain show; verily they are disquieted in vain; he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them. (Psa. 39:6)
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Prov. 23:5• 5wilt thou set thine eyes upon it, it is gone; for indeed it maketh itself wings and it flieth away as an eagle towards the heavens. (Prov. 23:5)
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Hag. 1:9• 9Ye looked for much, and behold it was little; and when ye brought it home, I blew upon it. Wherefore? saith Jehovah of hosts. Because of my house that lieth waste, whilst ye run every man to his own house. (Hag. 1:9)
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Hag. 2:16‑17• 16--before those days were, when one came to a heap of twenty measures, there were but ten; when one came to the vat to draw out fifty press-measures, there were but twenty.
 17I smote you with blasting and with mildew and with hail in all the work of your hands; and ye turned not to me, saith Jehovah. (Hag. 2:16‑17)
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Matt. 6:19‑20• 19Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon the earth, where moth and rust spoils, and where thieves dig through and steal;
 20but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust spoils, and where thieves do not dig through nor steal; (Matt. 6:19‑20)
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1 Sam. 2:6‑8,36• 6Jehovah killeth, and maketh alive; he bringeth down to Sheol, and bringeth up.
 7Jehovah maketh poor, and maketh rich, he bringeth low, also he lifteth up:
 8He raiseth up the poor out of the dust; from the dung-hill he lifteth up the needy, To set him among nobles; and he maketh them inherit a throne of glory; For the pillars of the earth are Jehovah's, and he hath set the world upon them.
 36And it shall come to pass that every one that is left of thy house shall come to crouch to him for a small piece of silver and for a cake of bread, and shall say, Put me, I pray thee, into one of the priestly offices, that I may eat a morsel of bread. (1 Sam. 2:6‑8,36)
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1 Kings 14:26• 26And he took away the treasures of the house of Jehovah, and the treasures of the king's house; he even took away all; and he took away all the shields of gold that Solomon had made. (1 Kings 14:26)
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Psa. 109:9‑12• 9Let his sons be fatherless, and his wife a widow;
 10Let his sons be vagabonds and beg, and let them seek their bread far from their desolate places;
 11Let the usurer cast the net over all that he hath, and let strangers despoil his labour;
 12Let there be none to extend kindness unto him, neither let there be any to favour his fatherless children; (Psa. 109:9‑12)

J. N. Darby Translation

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or those riches perish by some evil circumstance, and if he have begotten a son, there is nothing in his hand.