Parallel Verses

Modern King James verseion

The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eats little or much; but the abundance of the rich will not allow him to sleep.

New American Standard Bible

The sleep of the working man is pleasant, whether he eats little or much; but the full stomach of the rich man does not allow him to sleep.

King James Version

The sleep of a labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.

Holman Bible

The sleep of the worker is sweet, whether he eats little or much, but the abundance of the rich permits him no sleep.

International Standard Version

Sweet is the sleep of a working man, whether he eats a little or a lot, but the excess wealth of the rich will not allow him to rest.

A Conservative Version

The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eats little or much, but the fullness of the rich will not allow him to sleep.

American Standard Version

The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much; but the fulness of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.

Amplified

The sleep of a working man is sweet, whether he eats little or much; but the full stomach (greed) of the rich [who hungers for even more] will not let him sleep.

Bible in Basic English

The sleep of a working man is sweet, if he has little food or much; but to him who is full, sleep will not come.

Darby Translation

The sleep of the labourer is sweet, whether he have eaten little or much; but the fulness of the rich doth not suffer him to sleep.

Julia Smith Translation

The sleep of the servant is sweet, if little, or if much he shall eat: and the satiety to the rich not permitting to him to sleep.

King James 2000

The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eats little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not allow him to sleep.

Lexham Expanded Bible

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.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

A labouring man sleepeth sweetly, whether it be little or much that he eateth; but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.

NET Bible

The sleep of the laborer is pleasant -- whether he eats little or much -- but the wealth of the rich will not allow him to sleep.

New Heart English Bible

The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eats little or much; but the abundance of the rich will not allow him to sleep.

The Emphasized Bible

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.

Webster

The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eateth little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.

World English Bible

The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eats little or much; but the abundance of the rich will not allow him to sleep.

Youngs Literal Translation

Sweet is the sleep of the labourer whether he eat little or much; and the sufficiency of the wealthy is not suffering him to sleep.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
The sleep
שׁנא שׁנה 
Shehah 
Usage: 23

of a labouring man
עבד 
`abad 
Usage: 288

is sweet
מתוּק מתוק 
Mathowq 
Usage: 12

אכל 
'akal 
Usage: 809

מעט מעט 
M@`at 
Usage: 101

or much
רבה 
Rabah 
Usage: 224

but the abundance
שׂבע 
Saba` 
Usage: 8

of the rich
עשׁיר 
`ashiyr 
Usage: 23

will not suffer
ינח 
Yanach 
Usage: 0

Prayers for Ecclesiastes 5:12

Context Readings

There Is Never Enough Money To Satisfy

11 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? 12 The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eats little or much; but the abundance of the rich will not allow him to sleep. 13 There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept for their owners to their hurt.


Cross References

Proverbs 3:24

When you lie down, you shall not be afraid; yea, you shall lie down, and your sleep shall be sweet.

Psalm 4:8

I will lie down, both in peace and in sleep. For You alone, Jehovah, make me dwell in safety.

Psalm 127:2

It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows; for so He gives His beloved sleep.

Jeremiah 31:26

On this I awoke and looked up; and my sleep was sweet to me.

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