Why do you boast in evil, O mighty man? The loving-commitment of Ěl is all day long!
Ecclesiastes 5:10 - The Scriptures 2009 He who loves silver is not satisfied with silver; nor he who loves wealth, and increase. That too is futile. Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition He who loves silver will not be satisfied with silver, nor he who loves abundance with gain. This also is vanity (emptiness, falsity, and futility)! American Standard Version (1901) He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance, with increase: this also is vanity. Common English Bible The money lover isn’t satisfied with money; neither is the lover of wealth satisfied with income. This too is pointless. Catholic Public Domain Version Where there are many riches, there will also be many to consume these things. And how does it benefit the one who possesses, except that he discerns the wealth with his own eyes? Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Where there are great riches, there are also many to eat them. And what doth it profit the owner, but that he seeth the riches with his eyes? |
Why do you boast in evil, O mighty man? The loving-commitment of Ěl is all day long!
See the man who did not make Elohim his strength, But trusted in his many riches, Being strong in his destruction.
Do not trust in oppression. And do not become vain in robbery; If riches increase, Do not set your heart on them.
And I set my heart to know wisdom – and to know madness and folly. I know that this too is feeding on wind.
All matters are wearisome, no one is able to speak of it. The eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.
And all that my eyes desired I did not keep from them. I did not withhold my heart from any pleasure, for my heart rejoiced in all my labour. And this was my portion from all my labour.
But when I looked on all the works that my hands had done and on the labour in which I had toiled, see, all was futile and feeding on wind, and there was no gain under the sun.
For He gives wisdom and knowledge and joy to a man who is good in His eyes. But to the sinner He gives the task of gathering and collecting, to give to him who is good before Elohim. That too is futile and feeding on wind.
For the event of the sons of men is also the event of beasts – one event befalls them: as one dies, so dies the other. Indeed, they all have one breath – man has no advantage over beasts. For all is futile.
There was no end of all the people; all of whom he headed. But the ones who come afterward do not rejoice in him. For that too is futile and feeding on wind.
And I saw that all the toil and skill of the work bring envy between man and his neighbour. That too is futile and feeding on wind.
There is one, without a second, who has neither son nor brother. And there is no end to all his labours. His eye also is not satisfied with riches. “And for whom am I toiling and depriving myself of good?” That too is futility, and an evil task.
And the increase of the land is for all. The sovereign himself is served from the field.
All the labour of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not satisfied.
“Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves break in and steal,
No one is able to serve two masters, for either he shall hate the one and love the other, or else he shall cleave to the one and despise the other. You are not able to serve Elohim and mammon.
And He said to them, “Mind, and beware of greed, because one’s life does not consist in the excess of his possessions.”
For the love of silver is a root of all kinds of evil, for which some, by longing for it, have strayed from the belief, and pierced themselves through with many pains.