Ecclesiastes 5:11
“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?”
King James Version (KJV)
🌐 Ecclesiastes 5:11 in 8 Translations
King James Version (KJV)English
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?
American Standard Version (ASV)English
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?
Open English Bible (OEB)English
Elberfelder Bibel (ELB)Deutsch
Wenn das Gut sich mehrt, so mehren sich, die davon zehren; und welchen Nutzen hat dessen Besitzer, als das Anschauen seiner Augen? -
Reina-Valera (RV)Español
Cuando los bienes se aumentan, también se aumentan sus comedores. ¿Qué bien, pues, tendrá su dueño, sino verlos con sus ojos?
Bíblia Livre (BL)Português
Onde os bens se multiplicam, ali se multiplicam também os que a comem; e que proveito pois tem seus donos, a não ser somente ver a riqueza com seus olhos?
Nova Versão (NVA)Português
À medida que a prosperidade aumenta, também aumentam as pessoas que a consomem. Que vantagem existe na riqueza para seu proprietário, exceto em vê-la com seus olhos?
📖 Ecclesiastes 5:11 in Context
9Moreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king himself is served by the field.
10He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity.
11When 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?
12The sleep of a labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.
13There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt.
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