Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
There is an evil making sick I saw under the sun: riches watched to its owners for their evil.
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;
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
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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 servant is sweet, if little, or if much he shall eat: and the satiety to the rich not permitting to him to sleep. 13 There is an evil making sick I saw under the sun: riches watched to its owners for their evil. 14 And those riches shall perish by evil labor: and he begetting a son, and not anything in his hand.
Cross References
Ecclesiastes 6:1-2
There is evil which I saw under the sun, and it is much upon man:
Genesis 13:5-11
And to Lot also going with Abram, were sheep and oxen and tents.
Genesis 14:16
And he shall turn back all the substance, and also Lot, his brother, and having turned back his cattle, and also the women and the people.
Genesis 19:14
And Lot will go out, and will speak to his sons-in-law, having taken his daughters, and he will say, Rise ye up, go forth out of this place; for Jehovah destroys the city: and he will be as laughing in the eyes of his sons-in-law.
Genesis 19:26
And his wife will look hack from behind him, and will become a pillar of salt
Genesis 19:31-38
And the first-born will say to the small, our father has become old, and not a man in the earth to come in to us according to the way of all the earth:
Proverbs 1:11-13
If they shall say, Go with us, we will lie in wait for blood, we will hide for the innocent gratuitously;
Proverbs 1:19
So the ways of every one plundering plunder; he will take the soul of those possessing it.
Proverbs 1:32
For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the error of the foolish shall destroy them.
Proverbs 11:4
Wealth will not profit in the day of wrath, and justice will deliver from death.
Proverbs 11:24-25
There is scattering and yet adding; and the withholding more than right, only to want
Ecclesiastes 4:8
There is one, and not a second; also a son and brother not to him: and no end to all his labor; also his eye shall not be satisfied with riches: and for whom do I labor and diminish my soul from good? Also this is vanity, and it is an evil labor.
Ecclesiastes 8:9
All this I saw, and giving my heart to every work which was done under the sun: a time which man had power overman for evil to him.
Isaiah 32:6-8
For the foolish will speak folly, and his heart will do vanity to do profaneness and to speak error to Jehovah, to empty the soul of the hungry; and he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.
Zephaniah 1:18
Also their silver also their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of Jehovah; and all the land shall be consumed by the fire of his jealousy: for he will make a completion even sudden of all dwelling in the land.
Luke 12:16-21
And he spake a parable to them, saying, The farm of a certain rich man bore well:
Luke 16:1-13
And he said to his disciples, A certain man was rich, who had a steward; and he was slandered to him as dispersing his goods.
Luke 16:19
A certain man was rich, and was clothed in purple and fine linen, being daily splendidly gladdened:
Luke 16:22-23
And it was, the beggar died, and was carried by messengers into Abraham's bosom: and the rich one died also, and was buried;
Luke 18:22-23
And Jesus having heard these, said to him, Yet one thing fails thee: all whatever thou hast, sell and distribute to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, follow me.
Isaiah 2:20
In that day man shall cast the nothings of his silver and the nothings of his gold which they made for him to worship, to the digging of moles and to bats.
Luke 19:8
And Zaccheus having stood, said to the Lord, Behold, the half of my possessions, Lord, I give to the poor; and if I have made any false accusation against any one, I give back fourfold.
1 Timothy 6:9-10
And they wishing to be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and many eager desires, unwise and hurtful, which sink men into ruin and perdition.
James 2:5-7
Hear, my dearly beloved brethren, Has not God chosen the beggars of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he has promised to them loving him?
James 5:1-4
Come on now, ye rich, weep, uttering loud cries of grief for the misfortunes coming upon you.