Devine Scripture

Ecclesiastes 5:11

Ecclesiastes chapter 5 · verse 11 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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?

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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?

ASV

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?

Context

v.10He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance, with increase: this also is vanity.

v.11This passage

v.12The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much; but the fulness of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Ecclesiastes 11:9

    Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth, and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thy heart, and in the sight of thine eyes; but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.

  • 1 John 2:16

    For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the vainglory of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.

  • Psalms 119:36

    Incline my heart unto thy testimonies, And not to covetousness.

  • Genesis 13:2

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

  • Joshua 7:21

    when I saw among the spoil a goodly Babylonish mantle, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, then I coveted them, and took them; and, behold, they are hid in the earth in the midst of my tent, and the silver under it.

  • Genesis 12:16

    And he dealt well with Abram for her sake: and he had sheep, and oxen, and he-asses, and men-servants, and maid-servants, and she-asses, and camels.