Parallel Verses
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}.
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?
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
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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 Whoever loves money is not satisfied [with] money, and whoever loves wealth [is] not [satisfied with] profit. This also [is] vanity! 11 When prosperity increases, those who consume it increase. {So its owner gains nothing, except to see his wealth before it is spent}. 12 The sleep of the laborer [is] pleasant, whether he eats little or much, but the wealth of the rich man does not allow him to rest.
Phrases
Cross References
Genesis 12:16
And he dealt well with Abram on account of her, and he had sheep, cattle, male donkeys, male servants, female servants, female donkeys, and camels.
Genesis 13:2
Now Abram [was] very wealthy in livestock, in silver, and in gold.
Genesis 13:5-7
And Lot, who went with Abram, also had herds and tents.
Joshua 7:21-25
I saw among the spoil a beautiful robe from Shinar, two hundred shekels of silver, and one bar of gold [that] weighed fifty shekels; I coveted them and took them. They [are] hidden in the ground inside my tent, and the silver [is] under it."
1 Kings 4:22-23
The food of Solomon for one day was thirty dry measures of choice meal and sixty dry measures of flour;
1 Kings 5:13-16
Then King Solomon conscripted a forced labor from all Israel, and the forced labor [numbered] thirty thousand men.
Nehemiah 5:17-18
One hundred and fifty men, prefects and Jews, and those who came to us from the nations around us, [were] at my table.
Psalm 119:36-37
Incline my heart to your testimonies, and not to [dishonest] gain.
Proverbs 23:5
Your eyes will {alight} on it, but there is nothing [to] it, for suddenly it will make for itself wings like an eagle and it will be exhausted [in] the heavens.
Ecclesiastes 6:9
{Better to be content with what your eyes see than for your soul to constantly crave more}. This also [is] vanity and chasing wind!
Ecclesiastes 11:9
Rejoice, O young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth! Follow the ways of your heart and the sight of your eyes-- but know that God will bring you into judgment for all these things.
Jeremiah 17:11
[Like] a partridge that hatches eggs it did not lay [is] one who amasses wealth without justice. In the middle of his days it will leave him, and at his end he will [prove to] be a fool."
Habakkuk 2:13
Look! [Is it] not from Yahweh of hosts that people labor for mere fire, and nations exhaust themselves for mere vanity?
1 John 2:16
because everything [that is] in the world--the desire of the flesh and the desire of the eyes and the arrogance of material possessions--is not from the Father, but is from the world.