TSK · Ecclesiastes 5:13

Now Lot, who was traveling with Abram, also had flocks, herds, and tents.

Then Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law who were going to marry his daughters. He said,“Quick, get out of this place because the LORD is about to destroy the city!” But his sons-in-law thought he was ridiculing them.

Later the older daughter said to the younger,“Our father is old, and there is no man in the country to sleep with us, the way everyone does.

Such are the ways of all who gain profit unjustly; it takes away the life of those who obtain it!

Wealth does not profit in the day of wrath, but righteousness delivers from death.

Do not wear yourself out to become rich; be wise enough to restrain yourself.

A man who is all alone with no companion, he has no children nor siblings; yet there is no end to all his toil, and he is never satisfied with riches. He laments,“For whom am I toiling and depriving myself of pleasure?” This also is futile and a burdensome task!

While applying my mind to everything that happens in this world, I have seen all this: Sometimes one person dominates other people to their harm.

For a fool speaks disgraceful things; his mind plans out sinful deeds. He commits godless deeds and says misleading things about the LORD; he gives the hungry nothing to satisfy their appetite and gives the thirsty nothing to drink.

He then told them a parable:“The land of a certain rich man produced an abundant crop,

The Rich Man and Lazarus“There was a rich man who dressed in purple and fine linen and who feasted sumptuously every day.

When Jesus heard this, he said to him,“One thing you still lack. Sell all that you have and give the money to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven. Then come, follow me.”

Those who long to be rich, however, stumble into temptation and a trap and many senseless and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction.

Warning to the Rich Come now, you rich! Weep and cry aloud over the miseries that are coming on you.