Ecclesiastes 5:13

“There is a sore evil [which] I have seen under the sun, etc.] Or “an evil sickness”f135. A sinful disease in the person with whom it is found, and very disagreeable to others to behold; it is enough to make one sick to see it; and what he is about to relate he himself was an eyewitness of: [namely], riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt; laid up in barns and granaries, as the fruits of the earth; or in chests and coffers, as gold and silver, for the use and service of the owners of them; and which yet have been to their real injury; being either used by them in a luxurious and intemperate way, so have brought diseases on their bodies, and damnation to their souls; or not used at…”

“Proofs of God's judgments even in this world (Pro 11:31). The rich oppressor's wealth provokes enemies, robbers, &c. Then, after having kept it for an expected son, he loses it beforehand by misfortune ("by evil travail"), and the son is born to be heir of poverty. Ecc 2:19, Ecc 2:23 gives another aspect of the same subject.”

“To their hurt - Because they frequently are the occasions both of their present and eternal destruction. Ecclesiastes 5:14”

“5:13-14 Hoarding riches . . . everything is lost: Possessions are transitory and can be lost for any number of reasons.”

“a sore: Ecc 4:8, Ecc 6:1, Ecc 6:2 riches: Ecc 8:9; Gen 13:5-11, Gen 14:16, Gen 19:14, Gen 19:26, Gen 19:31-38; Pro 1:11-13, Pro 1:19, Pro 1:32; Pro 11:4, Pro 11:24, Pro 11:25; Isa 2:20, Isa 32:6-8; Zep 1:18; Luk 12:16-21; Luk 16:1-13, Luk 16:19, Luk 16:22, Luk 16:23, Luk 18:22, Luk 18:23, Luk 19:8; Ti1 6:9, Ti1 6:10; Jam 2:5-7, Jam 5:1-4 Ecclesiastes 5:14”

“"There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, riches kept by their possessor to his hurt: the same riches perish by an evil event; and he hath begotten a son, thus this one hath nothing in his hand." There is a gradation of evils. חולה רעה (cf. רע חלי ר, Ecc 6:2) is not an ordinary, but a morbid evil, i.e., a deep hurtful evil; as a wound, not a common one, but one particularly severe and scarcely curable, is called נחלה, e.g., Nah 3:19. השׁ ... רא is, as at Ecc 10:5, an ellipt. relat. clause; cf. on the other hand, Ecc 6:1; the author elsewhere uses the scheme of the relat. clause without relat. pron. (vid., under Ecc 1:13; Ecc 3:16); the old language would use ראיתיה, instead of…”