Ecclesiastes 5:11

Julia E. Smith Translation 1876

In the multitude of good they were multiplied eating it: and what the success to its possessors but seeing with his eyes?

Cross References

Genesis 12:16

And he will do good to Abram on account of her; and there shall be to him sheep and oxen and he-asses, and servants and maids, and she-asses and camels.

Genesis 13:2

And Abram was very abundant in cattle, in silver and in gold.

Proverbs 23:5

Wilt thou cause thine eyes to fly upon it and it is not? for making, it will make to it wings; as an eagle and it flew to the heavens.

Ecclesiastes 11:9

Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and thy heart shall do thee good in the days of thy youth, and go in the ways of thy heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: and know thou, that for all these God will bring thee into judgment

Ecclesiastes 2:9

And I was magnified and increased more than all being before me in Jerusalem: also my wisdom stood to me.

Ecclesiastes 5:12

The sleep of the servant is sweet, if little, or if much he shall eat: and the satiety to the rich not permitting to him to sleep.

Ecclesiastes 6:9

Good the sight of the eyes above the going of the soul. Also this is vanity and striving of spirit

Jeremiah 17:11

The partridge brooded and she brought not forth; to make riches and not in judgment, he shall leave them in the half of his days, and in his latter part he shall be foolish.

Habakkuk 2:13

Behold, is it not from Jehovah of armies, and the peoples shall labor in a sufficiency of fire, and the peoples shall be wearied in a sufficiency of emptiness?

1 John 2:16

For every thing which in the world, the eager desire of the flesh, and the eager desire of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.