“Those riches perish by misfortune, and if he has fathered a son, there is nothing in his hand.”

Reading this verse in context

This page shows one verse on its own, which is rarely how it was written. Ecclesiastes 5 contains 20 verses, and the sentences either side usually decide what this one means. Read the whole chapter before you quote it.

Text: World English Bible, Protestant edition (engwebp), eBible.org — public domain.