Ecclesiastes 5:11 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

¹¹ 8 This therefore hath seemed good to me, that a man should eat and drink, and enjoy the fruit of his labour, wherewith he hath laboured under the sun, all the days of his life, which God hath given him: and this is his portion.

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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 Cross References

Genesis 12:16

6 And they used Abram well for her sake. And he had sheep and oxen, and he asses, and menservants and maidservants, and she asses, and camels.

Genesis 13:2

And he was very rich in possession of gold and silver.

Proverbs 23:5

2 Let thy heart apply itself to instruction: and thy ears to words of knowledge.

Ecclesiastes 11:9

Before the silver cord be broken, and the golden fillet shrink back, and the pitcher be crushed at the fountain, and the wheel be broken upon the cistern,

Ecclesiastes 2:9

6 For there shall be no remembrance of the wise no more than of the fool for ever, and the times to come shall cover all things together with oblivion: the learned dieth in like manner as the unlearned.

Ecclesiastes 5:12

9 And every man to whom God hath given riches, and substance, and hath given him power to eat thereof, and to enjoy his portion, and to rejoice of his labour: this is the gift of God.

Ecclesiastes 6:9

The heart of the wise is where there is mourning, and the heart of fools where there is mirth.

Jeremiah 17:11

9 Thus saith the Lord to me: Go, and stand in the gate of the children of the people, by which the kings of Juda come in, and go out, and in all the gates of Jerusalem:

Habakkuk 2:13

A PRAYER OF HABACUC THE PROPHET FOR IGNORANCES.

1 John 2:16

5 And this is the promise which he hath promised us, life everlasting.