Ecclesiastes 5:11 - English Standard Version 2016

¹¹ When goods increase, they increase who eat them, and what advantage has their owner but to see them with his eyes?

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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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹¹ 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.

Ecclesiastes 5:11 Tagairtí Cros

Genesis 12:16

And for her sake he dealt well with Abram; and he had sheep, oxen, male donkeys, male servants, female servants, female donkeys, and camels.

Genesis 13:2

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

Proverbs 23:5

When your eyes light on it, it is gone, for suddenly it sprouts wings, flying like an eagle toward heaven.

Ecclesiastes 11:9

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

Ecclesiastes 2:9

So I became great and surpassed all who were before me in Jerusalem. Also my wisdom remained with me.

Ecclesiastes 5:12

Sweet is the sleep of a laborer, whether he eats little or much, but the full stomach of the rich will not let him sleep.

Ecclesiastes 6:9

Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the appetite: this also is vanity and a striving after wind.

Jeremiah 17:11

Like the partridge that gathers a brood that she did not hatch, so is he who gets riches but not by justice; in the midst of his days they will leave him, and at his end he will be a fool.

Habakkuk 2:13

Behold, is it not from the Lord of hosts that peoples labor merely for fire, and nations weary themselves for nothing?

1 John 2:16

For all that is in the world—the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride of life—is not from the Father but is from the world.