Ecclesiastes 5:14
or wealth lost in a bad venture, so that when he has a son there is nothing to pass on.
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Ecclesiastes 2:26
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 gathering and accumulating that which he will hand over to one who pleases God. This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind.

Job 5:5
The hungry consume his harvest, taking it even from the thorns; and the thirsty pant after his wealth.

Job 20:15-29
He swallows wealth but vomits it out; God will force it from his stomach. . . .

Job 27:16, 17
Though he heaps up silver like dust and piles up a wardrobe like clay, . . .

Psalm 39:6
Surely every man goes about like a phantom; surely he bustles in vain; he heaps up riches not knowing who will haul them away.

Proverbs 23:5
When you glance at wealth, it disappears, for it makes wings for itself and flies like an eagle to the sky.

Haggai 1:9
You expected much, but behold, it amounted to little. And what you brought home, I blew away. Why? declares the LORD of Hosts. Because My house still lies in ruins, while each of you is busy with his own house.

Haggai 2:16, 17
from that time when one came expecting a heap of twenty ephahs of grain, there were but ten. When one came to the winepress to draw out fifty baths, there were but twenty. . . .

Matthew 6:19, 20
Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. . . .

and he

1 Samuel 2:6-8, 36
The LORD brings death and gives life; some He brings down to Sheol, and others He raises up. . . .

1 Kings 14:26
He seized the treasuries of the house of the LORD and of the royal palace. He took everything, including all the gold shields that Solomon had made.

Psalm 109:9-12
May his children be fatherless and his wife a widow. . . .

Parallel Verses
New American Standard Bible
When those riches were lost through a bad investment and he had fathered a son, then there was nothing to support him.

King James Bible
But those riches perish by evil travail: and he begetteth a son, and there is nothing in his hand.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
That wealth was lost in a bad venture, so when he fathered a son, he was empty-handed.

International Standard Version
and that wealth is lost in troubled circumstances. Then a son is born, but there is nothing left for him.

NET Bible
Then that wealth was lost through bad luck; although he fathered a son, he has nothing left to give him.
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