He dealt well with Avram for her sake. He had sheep, oxen, male donkeys, male servants, female servants, female donkeys, and camels.
Ecclesiastes 5:11 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) 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? Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 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 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) 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 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 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. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Sleep is sweet to a labouring man, whether he eat lttle or much: but the fulness of the rich will not suffer him to sleep. |
He dealt well with Avram for her sake. He had sheep, oxen, male donkeys, male servants, female servants, female donkeys, and camels.
Why do you set your eyes on that which is not? For it certainly sprouts wings like an eagle and flies in the sky.
Rejoice, young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth, and 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 into judgment.
So I was great, and increased more than all who were before me in Yerushalayim. My wisdom also remained with me.
The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eats little or much; but the abundance of the rich will not allow him to sleep.
Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.
As the partridge that sits on [eggs] which she has not laid, so is he who gets riches, and not by right; in the midst of his days they shall leave him, and at his end he shall be a fool.
Behold, isn't it of the LORD of Armies that the peoples labor for the fire, and the nations weary themselves for vanity?
For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, isn't the Father's, but is the world's.