NASB
"When good things increase, those who consume them increase. So what is the advantage to their owners except to look on?"
— Ecclesiastes 5:11, NASB
“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?”
“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?”
If you see oppression of the poor and denial of justice and righteousness in the province, do not be shocked at the sight; for one official watches over another official, and there are higher officials over them.
After all, a king who cultivates the field is an advantage to the land.
He who loves money will not be satisfied with money, nor he who loves abundance with its income. This too is vanity.
When good things increase, those who consume them increase. So what is the advantage to their owners except to look on?
The sleep of the working man is pleasant, whether he eats little or much; but the full stomach of the rich man does not allow him to sleep.
There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun: riches being hoarded by their owner to his hurt.
When those riches were lost through a bad investment and he had fathered a son, then there was nothing to support him.