or wealth lost in a failed venture, so when that man has a son there is nothing to pass on.
Cross References
Psalm 39:6Surely every man goes about like a phantom; surely he bustles in vain; he heaps up riches not knowing who will haul them away.
Ecclesiastes 5:13There is a grievous evil I have seen under the sun: wealth hoarded to the harm of its owner,
Ecclesiastes 5:15As a man came from his mother's womb, so he will depart again, naked as he arrived. He takes nothing for his labor to carry in his hands.
Treasury of Scripture
But those riches perish by evil travail: and he begets a son, and there is nothing in his hand.
those
Ecclesiastes 2:26
For God giveth to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he giveth travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him that is good before God. This also is vanity and vexation of spirit.
Job 5:5
Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance.
Job 20:15-29
He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly…
and he
1 Samuel 2:6-8,36
The LORD killeth, and maketh alive: he bringeth down to the grave, and bringeth up…
1 Kings 14:26
And he took away the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king's house; he even took away all: and he took away all the shields of gold which Solomon had made.
Psalm 109:9-12
Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow…
