Ecclesiastes 5:13
“There is a sore euill which I haue seene vnder the Sun, namely riches kept for the owners therof to their hurt.”
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Ecclesiastes 5:13 Context
11When goods increase, they are increased that eate them: and what good is there to the owners thereof, sauing the beholding of them with their eyes? 12The sleepe of a labouring man is sweete, whether he eate little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleepe. 13There is a sore euill which I haue seene vnder the Sun, namely riches kept for the owners therof to their hurt. 14But those riches perish by euill trauell; and he begetteth a sonne, and there is nothing in his hand. 15As he came forth of his mothers wombe, naked shall he returne to goe as he came, and shall take nothing of his labour, which he may carry away in his hand.
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Other Translations for Ecclesiastes 5:13
There is a sore evil [which] I have seen under the sun, [namely], riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt.
- King James Version
There is a grievous evil {which} I have seen under the sun: riches being hoarded by their owner to his hurt.
- New American Standard Version (1995)
There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun, `namely', riches kept by the owner thereof to his hurt:
- American Standard Version (1901)
There is a great evil which I have seen under the sun--wealth kept by the owner to be his downfall.
- Basic English Bible
There is a grievous evil that I have seen under the sun: riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt;
- Darby Bible
There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept for the owners of them to their hurt.
- Webster's Bible
There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun: wealth kept by its owner to his harm.
- World English Bible
There is a painful evil I have seen under the sun: wealth kept for its possessor, for his evil.
- Youngs Literal Bible
(5:12) There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept by the owner thereof to his hurt;
- Jewish Publication Society Bible
Wesley's Notes for Ecclesiastes 5:13
5:13 To their hurt - Because they frequently are the occasions both of their present and eternal destruction.