Parallel Verses
The Emphasized Bible
When blessings are increased, increased are the eaters thereof, - what profit, then, to the owner of them saving the sight of his eyes?
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
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?
Holman Bible
When good things increase, the ones who consume them multiply; what, then, is the profit to the owner, except to gaze at them with his eyes?
International Standard Version
When possessions increase, so does the number of consumers; therefore what good are they to their owners, except to look at them?
A Conservative Version
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?
American Standard Version
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?
Amplified
When good things increase, those who consume them increase. So what advantage is there to their owners except to see them with their eyes?
Bible in Basic English
When goods are increased, the number of those who take of them is increased; and what profit has the owner but to see them?
Darby Translation
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?
Julia Smith Translation
In the multitude of good they were multiplied eating it: and what the success to its possessors but seeing with his eyes?
King James 2000
When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: so what good is there to the owners, except the beholding of them with their eyes?
Lexham Expanded Bible
When prosperity increases, those who consume it increase. {So its owner gains nothing, except to see his wealth before it is spent}.
Modern King James verseion
When the good thing increases, those who eat it increase; then what profit is it to its owners, except to see it with their eyes?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Whereas many riches are, there are many also that spend them away. And what pleasure more hath he that possesseth them, saving that he may look upon them with his eyes?
NET Bible
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?
New Heart English Bible
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?
Webster
When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: and what good is there to the owners of them, saving the beholding of them with their eyes?
World English Bible
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?
Youngs Literal Translation
In the multiplying of good have its consumers been multiplied, and what benefit is to its possessor except the sight of his eyes?
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Ecclesiastes 5:11
Verse Info
Context Readings
There Is Never Enough Money To Satisfy
10 He that loveth silver, shall not be satisfied with silver nor, he that loveth abundance, with revenue, - -even this, was vanity. 11 When blessings are increased, increased are the eaters thereof, - what profit, then, to the owner of them saving the sight of his eyes? 12 Sweet the sleep of the labourer, whether, little or much, he eat, - but, the surfeit of the rich man, will not suffer him to sleep.
Phrases
Cross References
Genesis 12:16
and with Abram, dealt he well for her sake, - so that he came to have flocks and herds and he-asses, and men-servants, and maid-servants, and she-asses and camels.
Genesis 13:2
Now, Abram, was very rich, - in cattle, in silver and in gold.
Genesis 13:5-7
Now, Lot also, who was going with Abram, had flocks and herds and tents.
Joshua 7:21-25
When I saw among the spoil a certain goodly mantle of Babylonia and two hundred shekels of silver and a certain wedge of gold - fifty shekels the weight thereof, then I coveted them, then I took them, - and, there they are, hid in the earth, in the midst of my tent, and the silver under it.
1 Kings 4:22-23
And it came to pass, that Solomon's provision for one day was, - thirty measures of fine flour, and sixty measures of meal;
1 Kings 5:13-16
And King Solomon raised a labour-band, out of all Israel, - and it came to pass that, the labour-band, was thirty thousand men.
Nehemiah 5:17-18
And, Jews and deputies, a hundred and fifty men, and they who were coming in unto us from among the nations which were round about us, depended upon my table.
Psalm 119:36-37
Incline my heart unto thy testimonies, and not unto unjust gain.
Proverbs 23:5
Wilt thou let thine eye fly thereupon, when it is nothing? for it will, surely make, itself wings, Like an eagle, will it wing its way across the heavens.
Ecclesiastes 6:9
Better what the eyes behold, than the wandering of desire, - even this, was vanity, and a feeding on wind.
Ecclesiastes 11:9
Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth, and let thy heart gladden thee in the days of thine early manhood, and walk thou - in the ways of thine own heart, and in that which is seen by thine own eyes, - yet know, that, for all these things, will God bring thee into judgment.
Jeremiah 17:11
As a partridge gathereth eggs she did not lay, So is he that maketh riches but not with justice, - In the midst of his days, shall he leave them, And in his latter end, prove to have been base.
Habakkuk 2:13
Lo! is it not from Yahweh of hosts - that peoples labour for fire, and, populations, for emptiness, weary themselves?
1 John 2:16
Because, all that is in the world - the coveting of the flesh, the coveting of the eyes, and the vain grandeur of life - is not of the Father, but is, of the world;