Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
He who has a love for silver never has enough silver, or he who has love for wealth, enough profit. This again is to no purpose.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity.
Holman Bible
The one who loves money is never satisfied with money, and whoever loves wealth is never satisfied with income. This too is futile.
International Standard Version
Whoever loves money will never have enough money. Whoever loves luxury will not be content with abundance. This also is pointless.
A Conservative Version
He who loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver, nor he who loves abundance, with increase. This also is vanity.
American Standard Version
He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance, with increase: this also is vanity.
Amplified
He who loves money will not be satisfied with money, nor he who loves abundance with its gain. This too is vanity (emptiness).
Darby Translation
He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver, nor he that loveth abundance with increase. This also is vanity.
Julia Smith Translation
He loving silver shall not be satisfied with silver; and whoever loved not the increase with the multitude. Also this is vanity.
King James 2000
He that loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loves abundance, with increase: this is also vanity.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Whoever loves money is not satisfied [with] money, and whoever loves wealth [is] not [satisfied with] profit. This also [is] vanity!
Modern King James verseion
He who loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver, and he who loves abundance not with gain. This is also vanity.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
He that loveth money, will never be satisfied with money: and whoso delighteth in riches, shall have no profit thereof. Is not this also a vain thing?
NET Bible
The one who loves money will never be satisfied with money, he who loves wealth will never be satisfied with his income. This also is futile.
New Heart English Bible
He who loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he who loves abundance, with increase: this also is vanity.
The Emphasized Bible
He that loveth silver, shall not be satisfied with silver nor, he that loveth abundance, with revenue, - -even this, was vanity.
Webster
He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity.
World English Bible
He who loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he who loves abundance, with increase: this also is vanity.
Youngs Literal Translation
Whoso is loving silver is not satisfied with silver, nor he who is in love with stores with increase. Even this is vanity.
Themes
Covetousness » Is never satisfied
greed » Results of » Disappointment
Riches » Described as » Unsatisfying
Satisfaction » Who shall not be satisfied
Topics
Interlinear
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'ahab
Hamown
References
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Ecclesiastes 5:10
Verse Info
Context Readings
There Is Never Enough Money To Satisfy
9 It is good generally for a country where the land is worked to have a king. 10 He who has a love for silver never has enough silver, or he who has love for wealth, enough profit. This again is to no purpose. 11 When goods are increased, the number of those who take of them is increased; and what profit has the owner but to see them?
Names
Cross References
Ecclesiastes 4:8
It is one who is by himself, without a second, and without son or brother; but there is no end to all his work, and he has never enough of wealth. For whom, then, am I working and keeping myself from pleasure? This again is to no purpose, and a bitter work.
Ecclesiastes 2:11
Then I saw all the works which my hands had made, and everything I had been working to do; and I saw that all was to no purpose and desire for wind, and there was no profit under the sun.
Matthew 6:24
No man is able to be a servant to two masters: for he will have hate for the one and love for the other, or he will keep to one and have no respect for the other. You may not be servants of God and of wealth.
Luke 12:15
And he said to them, Take care to keep yourselves free from the desire for property; for a man's life is not made up of the number of things which he has.
1 Timothy 6:10
For the love of money is a root of all evil: and some whose hearts were fixed on it have been turned away from the faith, and been wounded with unnumbered sorrows.
Psalm 52:1
Why do you take pride in wrongdoing, lifting yourself up against the upright man all the day?
Psalm 52:7
See, this is the man who did not make God his strength, but had faith in his goods and his property, and made himself
Psalm 62:10
Have no faith in the rewards of evil-doing, or in profits wrongly made: if your wealth is increased, do not put your hopes on it.
Proverbs 30:15-16
The night-spirit has two daughters, Give, give. There are three things which are never full, even four which never say, Enough:
Ecclesiastes 1:17
And I gave my heart to getting knowledge of wisdom, and of the ways of the foolish. And I saw that this again was desire for wind.
Ecclesiastes 2:17-18
So I was hating life, because everything under the sun was evil to me: all is to no purpose and desire for wind.
Ecclesiastes 2:26
To the man with whom he is pleased, God gives wisdom and knowledge and joy; but to the sinner he gives the work of getting goods together and storing up wealth, to give to him in whom God has pleasure. This again is to no purpose and desire for wind.
Ecclesiastes 3:19
Because the fate of the sons of men and the fate of the beasts is the same. As is the death of one so is the death of the other, and all have one spirit. Man is not higher than the beasts; because all is to no purpose.
Ecclesiastes 4:4
And I saw that the cause of all the work and of everything which is done well was man's envy of his neighbour. This again is to no purpose and a desire for wind.
Ecclesiastes 4:16
There was no end of all the people, of all those whose head he was, but they who come later will have no delight in him. This again is to no purpose and desire for wind.
Ecclesiastes 6:7
All the work of man is for his mouth, and still he has a desire for food.
Habakkuk 2:5-7
A curse on the cruel and false one! the man full of pride, who never has enough; who makes his desires wide as the underworld! he is like death; he is never full, but he makes all nations come to him, getting all peoples together to himself.
Matthew 6:19
Make no store of wealth for yourselves on earth, where it may be turned to dust by worms and weather, and where thieves may come in by force and take it away.