Parallel Verses
Darby Translation
He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver, nor he that loveth 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.
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).
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.
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 earth is every way profitable: the king himself is dependent upon the field. 10 He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver, nor he that loveth abundance with increase. This also is vanity. 11 When goods increase, they are increased that eat them; and what profit is there to the owner thereof, except the beholding of them with his eyes?
Names
Cross References
Ecclesiastes 4:8
There is one alone and without a second; also he hath neither son nor brother: yet is there no end of all his labour, neither is his eye satisfied with riches, and he saith not, For whom then am I labouring, and depriving my soul of good? This also is vanity and a grievous occupation.
Ecclesiastes 2:11
Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that it had cost me to do them; and behold, all was vanity and pursuit of the wind, and there was no profit under the sun.
Matthew 6:24
No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and will love the other, or he will hold to the one and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.
Luke 12:15
And he said to them, Take heed and keep yourselves from all covetousness, for it is not because a man is in abundance that his life is in his possessions.
1 Timothy 6:10
For the love of money is the root of every evil; which some having aspired after, have wandered from the faith, and pierced themselves with many sorrows.
Psalm 52:1
{To the chief Musician: an instruction. Of David; when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul, and said unto him, David came to the house of Ahimelech.} Why boastest thou thyself in evil, thou mighty man? The loving-kindness of God abideth continually.
Psalm 52:7
Behold the man that made not God his strength, but put confidence in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his avarice.
Psalm 62:10
Put not confidence in oppression, and become not vain in robbery; if wealth increase, set not your heart upon it.
Proverbs 30:15-16
The leech hath two daughters: Give, give. There are three things never satisfied; four which say not, It is enough:
Ecclesiastes 1:17
And I applied my heart to the knowledge of wisdom, and to the knowledge of madness and folly: I perceived that this also is a striving after the wind.
Ecclesiastes 2:17-18
And I hated life; for the work that is wrought under the sun was grievous unto me; for all is vanity and pursuit of the wind.
Ecclesiastes 2:26
For he giveth to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy; but to the sinner he giveth travail to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him that is good in God's sight. This also is vanity and pursuit of the wind.
Ecclesiastes 3:19
For what befalleth the children of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other, and they have all one breath; and man hath no pre-eminence above the beast: for all is vanity.
Ecclesiastes 4:4
And I saw all labour, and all success of work, that it is man's jealousy of his neighbour. This also is vanity and pursuit of the wind.
Ecclesiastes 4:16
There is no end of all the people, of all that stood before them; those however that come after shall not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and a striving after the wind.
Ecclesiastes 6:7
All the labour of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.
Habakkuk 2:5-7
And moreover, the wine is treacherous: he is a proud man, and keepeth not at rest, he enlargeth his desire as Sheol, and he is like death and cannot be satisfied; and he assembleth unto him all nations, and gathereth unto him all peoples.
Matthew 6:19
Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon the earth, where moth and rust spoils, and where thieves dig through and steal;