Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
He who loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver, nor he who loves abundance, with increase. This also is vanity.
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.
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).
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.
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
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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 Moreover the abundance of the land is for all. The king [himself] is served by the field. 10 He who loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver, nor he who loves abundance, with increase. This also is vanity. 11 When goods increase, they are increased who eat them. And what advantage is there to the owner of it, except the beholding [of them] with his eyes?
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Cross References
Ecclesiastes 2:11
Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labor that I had labored to do, and, behold, all was vanity and a striving after wind, and there was no profit under the sun.
Matthew 6:24
No man can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one, and love the other, or he will hold to one, and disparage the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
Luke 12:15
And he said to them, Watch, and keep away from greed, because to any man, life to him is not in the abundance of things possessed by him.
1 Timothy 6:10
For the love of money is a root of all the evils, of which some aspiring have wandered from the faith, and have pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
Psalm 52:1
Why boast thou thyself in mischief, O mighty man? The loving kindness of God [is] continual.
Psalm 52:7
Lo, this is the man who did not make God his strength, but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness.
Psalm 62:10
Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery. If riches increase, set not your heart [on it].
Proverbs 30:15-16
The leach has two daughters, [crying], Give, give. There are three things that are never satisfied, [yea], four that do not say, Enough:
Ecclesiastes 1:17
And I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly. I perceived that this also was a striving after wind.
Ecclesiastes 2:17-18
So I hated life, because the work that is wrought under the sun was grievous to me. For all is vanity and a striving after wind.
Ecclesiastes 2:26
For to the man who pleases him [God] gives wisdom and knowledge and joy, but to the sinner he gives travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him who pleases God. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.
Ecclesiastes 3:19
For that which befalls the sons of men befalls beasts, even one thing befalls them; as the one dies, so dies the other. Yea, they all have one breath, and man has no preeminence above the beasts; for all is vanity.
Ecclesiastes 6:7
All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.
Habakkuk 2:5-7
Yea, moreover, wine is treacherous.) [He is] a haughty man, who does not keep at home, who enlarges his desire as Sheol, and he is as death, and cannot be satisfied, but gathers to him all nations, and heaps to him all peoples.
Matthew 6:19
Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon the earth, where moth and rust deteriorates, and where thieves break through and steal,