Ecclesiastes
King James Version (KJV)
Ecclesiastes 5:11
“When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: and what good is there to the owners thereof, saving the beholding of them with their eyes?”
King James Version (KJV)
Ecclesiastes 5:11 Context
8If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter: for he that is higher than the highest regardeth; and there be higher than they. 9Moreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king himself is served by the field. 10He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity. 11When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: and what good is there to the owners thereof, saving the beholding of them with their eyes? 12The sleep of a labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep. 13There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt. 14But those riches perish by evil travail: and he begetteth a son, and there is nothing in his hand.
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Translation Details for Ecclesiastes 5:11
When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: and what good is there to the owners thereof, saving the beholding of them with their eyes?
Other Translations for Ecclesiastes 5:11
Bible Commentary for Ecclesiastes 5:11
Wesley's Notes for Ecclesiastes 5:11
5:9 Profit - The fruits of the earth. For all - Necessary and beneficial to all men. The wise man, after some interruption, returns to his former subject, the vanity of riches, one evidence whereof he mentions in this verse, that the poor labourer enjoys the fruits of the earth as well as the greatest monarch. Is served - Is supported by the fruits of the field.
5:13 To their hurt - Because they frequently are the occasions both of their present and eternal destruction.
When 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?
- King James Version (1611) - View 1611 Bible Scan
When good things increase, those who consume them increase. So what is the advantage to their owners except to look on?
- New American Standard Version (1995)
When goods increase, they are increased that eat them; and what advantage is there to the owner thereof, save the beholding `of them' with his eyes?
- American Standard Version (1901)
When goods are increased, the number of those who take of them is increased; and what profit has the owner but to see them?
- Basic English Bible
When goods increase, they are increased that eat them; and what profit is there to the owner thereof, except the beholding [of them] with his eyes?
- Darby Bible
When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: and what good is there to the owners of them, saving the beholding of them with their eyes?
- Webster's Bible
When goods increase, those who eat them are increased; and what advantage is there to its owner, except to feast on them with his eyes?
- World English Bible
In the multiplying of good have its consumers been multiplied, and what benefit [is] to its possessor except the sight of his eyes?
- Youngs Literal Bible
(5:10) When goods increase, they are increased that eat them; and what advantage is there to the owner thereof, saving the beholding of them with his eyes?
- Jewish Publication Society Bible