King James Version with Apocrypha
"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?"
— Ecclesiastes 5:11, King James Version with Apocrypha
“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?”
“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? ”
“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?”
“When someone’s prosperity increases, those who consume it also increase; so what does its owner gain, except that he gets to see it with his eyes?”
“Sleep is sweet to a labouring man, whether he eat little or much: but the fulness of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.”
“When goods are increased, the number of those who take of them is increased; and what profit has the owner but to see them?”
If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter: for he that is higher than the highest regardeth; and there be higher than they.
Moreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king himself is served by the field.
He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity.
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?
The 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.
There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt.
But those riches perish by evil travail: and he begetteth a son, and there is nothing in his hand.