Ecclesiastes 5:13 — Community Reflections

ECCLESIASTES 5:13 — KING JAMES VERSION 1 1

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

Qohelet's observation of a grievous evil: wealth hoarded and destroyed through misfortune, leaving the owner with nothing to give to his heir, illustrates how wealth fails to secure the future. The sudden loss of accumulated fortune, whether through economic disaster, theft, or other calamity, renders the entire effort to accumulate futile. This verse implies that the fundamental vulnerability of all possessions to loss makes wealth-hoarding particularly futile; one cannot actually secure through accumulation.

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