Ecclesiastes 5:11 Cross References - Darby

¹¹ When goods increase, they are increased that eat them; and what profit is there to the owner thereof, except the beholding [of them] with his eyes?

¹⁶ And he treated Abram well on her account; and he had sheep, and oxen, and he-asses, and bondmen, and bondwomen, and she-asses, and camels.

² And Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold.

⁵ And Lot also who went with Abram had flocks, and herds, and tents. ⁶ And the land could not support them, that they might dwell together, for their property was great; and they could not dwell together. ⁷ 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.

²² And Solomon`s provision for one day was thirty measures of fine flour, and sixty measures of meal, ²³ ten fatted oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and a hundred sheep, besides harts, and gazelles, and fallow-deer, and fatted fowl.

¹³ And king Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel; and the levy was thirty thousand men. ¹⁴ And he sent them to Lebanon, ten thousand a month by courses; a month they were in Lebanon, two months at home; and Adoniram was over the levy. ¹⁵ And Solomon had seventy thousand that bore burdens, and eighty thousand stone-masons in the mountains; ¹⁶ besides the overseers whom Solomon had set over the work, three thousand three hundred, who ruled over the people that wrought in the work. ¹⁷ And there were at my table a hundred and fifty of the Jews and the rulers, besides those that came to us from among the nations that were about us. ¹⁸ And that which was prepared daily was one ox [and] six choice sheep; also fowls were prepared for me, and once in ten days all sorts of wine in abundance. Yet for all this I demanded not the bread of the governor; for the service was heavy upon this people.

³⁶ Incline my heart unto thy testimonies, and not to gain. ³⁷ Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity; quicken me in thy way.

⁵ wilt 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.

⁹ Better is the seeing of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this also is vanity and pursuit of the wind.

⁹ Rejoice, young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thy heart, and in the sight of thine eyes; but know that for all these [things] God will bring thee into judgment.

¹¹ [As] the partridge sitteth on [eggs] it hath not laid, [so] is he that getteth riches and not by right: in the midst of his days shall he leave them, and at his end shall be a fool.

¹³ Behold, is it not of Jehovah of hosts that the peoples labour for the fire, and the nations weary themselves in vain?

¹⁶ because all that [is] in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.