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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 to the man that pleaseth him God giveth wisdom,{HR}And knowledge, and joy:{HR}But to the sinner he giveth travail,{HR}To gather and to heap up,{HR}That he may give to him that pleaseth God.{HR}This also [is] vanity and a striving after wind. (Eccl. 2:26)
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Job 5:5• 5Whose harvest the hungry one devoureth,{HR}And taketh it off even out of a thorn-hedge,{HR}And the thirsty swalloweth up their wealth. (Job 5:5)
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Job 20:15‑29• 15Wealth hath he swallowed, and shall disgorge it:{HR}God will eject it again out of his belly.
 16He shall suck the poison of asps:{HR}The tongue of the viper shall slay him.
 17He shall not gaze on rivulets,{HR}Flowings of streams of honey and butter.
 18What he laboured for, he shall restore, and not swallow.{HR}As the property his exchange, and he rejoiceth not,
 19For he crushed, abandoned, the poor,{HR}Seized a house, and built it not;
 20For he knew no rest in his belly;{HR}He shall not escape with his desirable thing,
 21There is no remnant of his eating.{HR}Therefore his prosperity endureth not.
 22In the fullness of his superfluity he is straitened,{HR}Every hand of a wretch shall be upon him.
 23That it may be to the filling of his belly,{HR}He shall send against him the burning of his anger,{HR}And rain upon him with his food.
 24He fleeth from a weapon of iron,{HR}A bow of copper pierceth him through;
 25It is drawn, and it cometh out of the body,{HR}And the glittering sword proceedeth out of his gall:{HR}Upon him [are] terrors.
 26All darkness [is] hid for his treasures,{HR}A fire not blown consumeth him;{HR}It shall fare ill with what is left in his tent.
 27The heavens reveal his iniquity,{HR}And the earth riseth up against him.
 28The increase of his house departeth,{HR}Things that ran away in the day of his anger.
 29This [is] the portion of the wicked man from God [Elohim],{HR}And the heritage of his sentence from God [El]. (Job 20:15‑29)
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Job 27:16‑17• 16If he heap up silver as dust, and prepare clothing as clay,
 17He prepareth, but the righteous shall put [it] on,{HR}And the innocent shall divide the silver. (Job 27:16‑17)
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Psa. 39:6• 6Surely in an image doth man walk;{HR}Surely in vain are they disquieted:{HR}He hoardeth, and knoweth not who shall gather them. (Psa. 39:6)
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Prov. 23:5• 5Wilt thou set thine eyes upon what is not?{HR}For indeed it maketh itself wings, and it flieth away,{HR}As an eagle toward the heavens. (Prov. 23:5)
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Hag. 1:9• 9Ye looked for much, and, lo, it came to little; and when ye brought it home, I did blow upon it. Why? said Jehovah of hosts. Because of mine house that is waste, and ye run every man unto his own house. (Hag. 1:9)
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Hag. 2:16‑17• 16since those days were, when one came to an heap of twenty measures, there were but ten: when one came to the press-fat for to draw out fifty vessels out of the press, there were but twenty.
 17I smote you with blasting and with mildew and with hail in all the labours of your hands; yet ye turned not to me, saith Jehovah. (Hag. 2:16‑17)
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Matt. 6:19‑20• 19Lay not up for you treasures on the earth where moth and rust consume, and where thieves dig through and steal;
 20but lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven where neither moth nor rust corrupteth, and where thieves dig not through nor steal. (Matt. 6:19‑20)
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1 Sam. 2:6‑8,36• 6Jehovah killeth, and maketh alive:{HR}He bringeth down to the grave, and bringeth up.
 7Jehovah maketh poor, and maketh rich:{HR}He bringeth low, and lifteth up.
 8He raiseth up the poor out of the dust,{HR}And lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill,{HR}To set them among princes,{HR}And to make them inherit the throne of glory:{HR}For the pillars of the earth are Jehovah's,{HR}And He hath set the world upon them.
 36{i}And 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.{/i} (1 Sam. 2:6‑8,36)
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1 Kings 14:26• 26{i}And 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.{/i} (1 Kings 14:26)
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Psa. 109:9‑12• 9Let his sons be orphans and his wife a widow.
 10And let his sons be vagabonds (wandering wanderers),{HR}And beg and seek [bread] out of their desolations.
 11Let an exactor ensnare all that he hath,{HR}And strangers plunder his labour.
 12Let there be none extending mercy to him,{HR}Nor anyone gracious to his orphans. (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.

W. Kelly Translation

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And those riches perish by evil adventure;{HR}And if he hath begotten a son,{HR}There is nothing in his hand.