He who loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he who loves abundance, with increase: this also is vanity.
⛓ Read Ecclesiastes 5 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Allusion1
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
'He who loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver, nor he who loves abundance with increase.' Qoheleth's insight into the insatiability of money-love directly parallels the diagnosis of those 'determined to be rich' and 'the love of money.' A direct wisdom witness to the avarice critique.
Medium confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'Whoever loves money will not be satisfied with money'—Qoheleth's verdict on the futility of abundance—coheres directly with 'a man's life doesn't consist of the abundance of the things which he possesses.' The wisdom critique of accumulation supports the warning against covetousness.
Medium confidence