Parallel Verses

New American Standard Bible

When good things increase, those who consume them increase. So what is the advantage to their owners except to look on?

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?

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?

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?

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
אכל 
'akal 
Usage: 809

them and what good
כּשׁרון 
Kishrown 
Usage: 3

is there to the owners
בּעל 
Ba`al 
Usage: 85

אם 
'im 
Usage: 999

the beholding
ראוה 
Ra'avah 
Usage: 0

Context Readings

There Is Never Enough Money To Satisfy

10 He that loves money shall not be satisfied with money; nor he that loves abundance with increase; this is also vanity. 11 When good things increase, those who consume them increase. So what is the advantage to their owners except to look on? 12 The sleep of the servant is sweet whether he eats little or much, but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.


Cross References

Genesis 12:16

And he treated Abram well for her sake: and he had sheep and oxen and he asses and menslaves and maidslaves and she asses and camels.

Genesis 13:2

And Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold.

Genesis 13:5-7

And Lot also, who went with Abram, had flocks and herds and tents.

Joshua 7:21-25

When I saw among the spoils a goodly Babylonish garment and two hundred shekels of silver and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, then I coveted them and took them; and, behold, they are hid in the earth in the midst of my tent, and the silver under it.

1 Kings 4:22-23

And 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 levy out of all Israel, and the levy was thirty thousand men,

Nehemiah 5:17-18

I also had at my table one hundred and fifty of the Jews and rulers, besides those that came unto us from among the Gentiles that are around us.

Psalm 119:36-37

Incline my heart unto thy testimonies and not to covetousness.

Proverbs 23:5

Wilt thou set thine eyes upon riches which are not? For they shall certainly make themselves wings; they shall fly away as an eagle toward heaven.

Ecclesiastes 6:9

It is better to enjoy the good that is present than the wandering of desire; this is also vanity and vexation of spirit.

Ecclesiastes 11:9

Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth and walk in the ways of thine heart and in the sight of thine eyes; but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment.

Jeremiah 17:11

As the partridge that steals that which she did not hatch, is he that gets riches and not with righteousness; in the midst of his days he shall leave them, and at his end shall be a fool.

Habakkuk 2:13

Is this not of the LORD of the hosts? Therefore the peoples shall labour for the fire, and the Gentiles shall weary themselves in vain.

1 John 2:16

For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.

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