Parallel Verses
New American Standard Bible
There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun:
King James Version
There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt.
Holman Bible
There is a sickening tragedy I have seen under the sun: wealth kept by its owner to his harm.
International Standard Version
I have observed a painful tragedy on earth: Wealth hoarded by its owner harms him,
A Conservative Version
There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun: Riches [were] kept by the owner of it to his hurt.
American Standard Version
There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun, namely , riches kept by the owner thereof to his hurt:
Amplified
There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun: riches being kept and hoarded by their owner to his own misery.
Bible in Basic English
There is a great evil which I have seen under the sun--wealth kept by the owner to be his downfall.
Darby Translation
There is a grievous evil that I have seen under the sun: riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt;
Julia Smith Translation
There is an evil making sick I saw under the sun: riches watched to its owners for their evil.
King James 2000
There is a great evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept by their owners to their hurt.
Lexham Expanded Bible
There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun: wealth {hoarded} by its owner to his harm.
Modern King James verseion
There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept for their owners to their hurt.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Yet is there a sore plague, which I have seen under the sun: namely, riches kept to the hurt of him that hath them in possession.
NET Bible
Here is a misfortune on earth that I have seen: Wealth hoarded by its owner to his own misery.
New Heart English Bible
There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun: wealth kept by its owner to his harm.
The Emphasized Bible
Here was an incurable evil, I had seen under the sun, riches kept by the owner thereof, to his hurt;
Webster
There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept for the owners of them to their hurt.
World English Bible
There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun: wealth kept by its owner to his harm.
Youngs Literal Translation
There is a painful evil I have seen under the sun: wealth kept for its possessor, for his evil.
Interlinear
Chalah
Ra`
Ra'ah
Shemesh
Shamar
References
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Ecclesiastes 5:13
Verse Info
Context Readings
Hoarding Wealth Can Backfire
12
The sleep of the working man is
Cross References
Ecclesiastes 6:1-2
There is an
Genesis 13:5-11
Now
Genesis 14:16
He
Genesis 19:14
Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, who
Genesis 19:26
But his wife, from behind him,
Genesis 19:31-38
Then the firstborn said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is not a man
Proverbs 1:11-13
Let us
Let us
Proverbs 1:19
It takes away the life of its possessors.
Proverbs 1:32
And the complacency of fools will destroy them.
Proverbs 11:4
But
Proverbs 11:24-25
And there is one who withholds what is justly due, and yet it results only in want.
Ecclesiastes 4:8
There was a certain man without a
Ecclesiastes 8:9
All this I have seen and applied my
Isaiah 32:6-8
And his heart
To practice
To
And
Zephaniah 1:18
Will be able to deliver them
On the day of the Lord’s wrath;
And
In the fire of His jealousy,
For He will
Indeed a terrifying one,
Of all the inhabitants of the earth.
Luke 12:16-21
And He told them a parable, saying,
Luke 16:1-13
Now He was also saying to the disciples,
Luke 16:19
Luke 16:22-23
Luke 18:22-23
When Jesus heard this, He said to him,
Isaiah 2:20
Their idols of silver and their idols of gold,
Which they made for themselves to worship,
Luke 19:8
Zaccheus stopped and said to
1 Timothy 6:9-10
James 2:5-7
Listen,
James 5:1-4