Parallel Verses
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?
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?
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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 who loves money will not be satisfied with money, nor he who loves wealth, with gain. This too is vanity.
11
Phrases
Cross References
Genesis 12:16
He treated Abram well for her sake. Abram acquired sheep and cattle, male and female donkeys, menservants and maidservants, and camels.
Genesis 13:2
Abram had become very wealthy in livestock and in silver and gold.
Genesis 13:5-7
Lot moved about with Abram. He also had flocks and herds and tents.
Joshua 7:21-25
When I saw among the spoils a quality Babylonish garment, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold of fifty shekels weight, then I coveted them, and took them. I hid them in the earth in the middle of my tent.
1 Kings 4:22-23
The supplies Solomon needed each day were one hundred and fifty bushels of fine flour and three hundred bushels of meal.
1 Kings 5:13-16
King Solomon drafted thirty thousand men as forced labor from all over Israel.
Nehemiah 5:17-18
There is more, a hundred and fifty of the Jews and the rulers were guests at my table, in addition to those who came to us from the nations nearby.
Psalm 119:36-37
Incline my heart to your laws and not to dishonest gain.
Proverbs 23:5
Will you look for things that do not exist? Riches grow wings and fly away like a bird.
Ecclesiastes 6:9
Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering after the desire. This is also vanity and a striving after wind.
Ecclesiastes 11:9
Rejoice, O young man, in your youth. Let your heart cheer you in your early days. Walk in the ways of your heart, and in the desires of your eyes. Yet you know that God will bring you into judgment for all these things.
Jeremiah 17:11
A person who gets rich dishonestly is like a partridge that hatches eggs it did not lay. During his lifetime, he will lose his wealth. In the end, he will be a wicked fool.
Habakkuk 2:13
Is it for Jehovah of Hosts that the peoples labor for the fire? Do the nations weary themselves for vanity?
1 John 2:16
The entire world, the desire of the flesh and the lust of the eyes and the boastful pride of material wealth, is not from the Father, but is from the world.