Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
The fool foldeth his hands together, and eateth up his own flesh.
New American Standard Bible
The fool
King James Version
The fool foldeth his hands together, and eateth his own flesh.
Holman Bible
and consumes his own flesh.
International Standard Version
The fool crosses his arms and starves himself.
American Standard Version
The fool foldeth his hands together, and eateth his own flesh.
Amplified
The fool folds his hands [together] and consumes his own flesh [destroying himself by idleness and apathy].
Bible in Basic English
The foolish man, folding his hands, takes the flesh of his body for food.
Darby Translation
The fool foldeth his hands together, and eateth his own flesh.
Julia Smith Translation
The foolish one folded his hands together, and ate his flesh.
King James 2000
The fool folds his hands together, and eats his own flesh.
Lexham Expanded Bible
{The fool refuses to work with his hands, so he has nothing to eat except his own skin}!
Modern King James verseion
The fool folds his hands together, and eats his own flesh.
NET Bible
The fool folds his hands and does no work, so he has nothing to eat but his own flesh.
New Heart English Bible
The fool folds his hands together and ruins himself.
The Emphasized Bible
The dullard, claspeth his hands, and consumeth his own flesh.
Webster
The fool foldeth his hands together, and eateth his own flesh.
World English Bible
The fool folds his hands together and ruins himself.
Youngs Literal Translation
The fool is clasping his hands, and eating his own flesh:
Themes
Interlinear
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Hastings
Word Count of 19 Translations in Ecclesiastes 4:5
Verse Info
Context Readings
People Need Balance In Their Approach To Labor
4 Again, I saw that all travail and diligence of labour was hated of every man. This is also a vain thing, and a vexation of mind. 5 The fool foldeth his hands together, and eateth up his own flesh. 6 "One handful," sayeth he, "is better with rest, than both the hands full with labor and travail."
Phrases
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Cross References
Isaiah 9:20
but robbeth him on the righthand, and doth famish; he eateth on the left hand and he shall not have enough. Every man shall eat the flesh of his own arm.
Job 13:14
Wherefore do I bear my flesh in my teeth, and put my soul in my hands?
Proverbs 6:10-11
Yea, sleep on still a little, slumber a little, fold thy hands together yet a little, that thou mayest sleep:
Proverbs 11:17
He that hath a gentle liberal stomach is merciful; but whoso hurteth his neighbour, is a tyrant.
Proverbs 12:27
A deceitful man shall find no vantage; but he that is content with that he hath, is more worth than gold.
Proverbs 13:4
The sluggard would fain have, and cannot get his desire; but the soul of the diligent shall have plenty.
Proverbs 20:4
A slothful body will not go to plow, for cold of the winter; therefore shall he go a begging in Summer and have nothing.
Proverbs 24:33-34
Yea, sleep on still a little, slumber a little, fold thine hands together yet a little;