Ecclesiastes 5:10

He who loves money is never satisfied by money, and he who loves wealth is never satisfied by income. This too is futile.

Cross References (18)

  • 1 Timothy 6:10 (25)

    For the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil. By craving it, some have wandered away from the faith and pierce

  • Matthew 6:24 (18)

    No one can serve two masters: Either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to the one and despi

  • Luke 12:15 (16)

    And He said to them, “Watch out! Guard yourselves against every form of greed, for one’s life does not consist in the ab

  • Matthew 6:19 (14)

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

  • Ecclesiastes 4:8 (10)

    There is a man all alone, without even a son or brother. And though there is no end to his labor, his eyes are still not

  • Ecclesiastes 4:4 (9)

    I saw that all labor and success spring from a man’s envy of his neighbor. This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind.

  • Psalms 62:10 (8)

    Place no trust in extortion or false hope in stolen goods. If your riches increase, do not set your heart upon them.

  • Ecclesiastes 2:26 (8)

    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

  • Psalms 52:7 (7)

    “Look at the man who did not make God his refuge, but trusted in the abundance of his wealth and strengthened himself by

  • Habakkuk 2:5–7 (6)

    and wealth indeed betrays him. He is an arrogant man never at rest. He enlarges his appetite like Sheol, and like Death,

  • Ecclesiastes 2:11 (5)

    Yet when I considered all the works that my hands had accomplished and what I had toiled to achieve, I found everything

  • Ecclesiastes 4:16 (4)

    There is no limit to all the people who were before them. Yet the successor will not be celebrated by those who come eve

  • Ecclesiastes 3:19 (4)

    For the fates of both men and beasts are the same: As one dies, so dies the other—they all have the same breath. Man has

  • Proverbs 30:15–16 (4)

    The leech has two daughters: Give and Give. There are three things that are never satisfied, four that never say, ‘Enoug

  • Ecclesiastes 6:7 (3)

    All a man’s labor is for his mouth, yet his appetite is never satisfied.

  • Ecclesiastes 1:17 (3)

    So I set my mind to know wisdom and madness and folly; I learned that this, too, is a pursuit of the wind.

  • Ecclesiastes 2:17–18 (3)

    So I hated life, because the work that is done under the sun was grievous to me. For everything is futile and a pursuit

  • Psalms 52:1 (1)

    For the choirmaster. A Maskil of David. After Doeg the Edomite went to Saul and told him, “David has gone to the house o