Ecclesiastes 5:11 - Tree of Life Version

¹¹ The sleep of the laborer is sweet, whether he eats little or much— but the excess of the rich permits him no sleep.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹¹ When goods increase, they who eat them increase also. And what gain is there to their owner except to see them with his eyes?

American Standard Version (1901)

¹¹ 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?

Common English Bible

¹¹ When good things flow, so do those who consume them. But what do owners benefit from such goods, except to feast their eyes on them?

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹¹ Sleep is sweet to one who works, whether he consumes little or much. But the satiation of a wealthy man will not permit him to sleep.

Ecclesiastes 5:11 Referencias Cruzadas

1 John 2:16

For everything in the world—the desire of the flesh, the desire of the eyes, and the boasting of life—is not from the Father but from the world.

Habakkuk 2:13

Behold, is it not from Adonai-Tzva’ot that peoples toil to fuel a fire, and nations exhaust themselves for emptiness?

Proverbs 23:5

When you cast your eyes 0n riches, it is gone; for it surely sprouts wings and flies off into the sky like an eagle.

Ecclesiastes 6:9

Better is what the eyes see than the pursuit of the soul’s desires. This too is fleeting and striving after wind.

Ecclesiastes 11:9

Rejoice, young man, in your childhood, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth. Walk in the ways of your heart and in the sight of your eyes, but know that for all these things God will bring you to judgment.

Genesis 13:2

Now Abram was very rich in livestock, silver and gold.

Genesis 12:16

But Abram was treated well for her sake, and he got sheep, cattle, male donkeys, male and female slaves, female donkeys and camels.

Jeremiah 17:11

As a partridge that broods over young that she did not lay, so is one who gets wealth, unjustly. In the middle of his days it will abandon him, so at his end he will be a fool.

Ecclesiastes 2:9

So I became far wealthier than all before me in Jerusalem, yet my wisdom stayed with me.

Ecclesiastes 5:12

There is a grievous wrong that I have seen under the sun: wealth hoarded by its owner to his own hurt,