Parallel Verses

Lexham Expanded Bible

That wealth was lost in a bad venture. Although he has borne a child, {he has nothing to leave to him}.

New American Standard Bible

When those riches were lost through a bad investment and he had fathered a son, then there was nothing to support him.

King James Version

But those riches perish by evil travail: and he begetteth a son, and there is nothing in his hand.

Holman Bible

That wealth was lost in a bad venture, so when he fathered a son, he was empty-handed.

International Standard Version

and that wealth is lost in troubled circumstances. Then a son is born, but there is nothing left for him.

A Conservative Version

And those riches perish in a bad venture. And if he has begotten a son, there is nothing in his hand.

American Standard Version

and those riches perish by evil adventure; and if he hath begotten a son, there is nothing in his hand.

Amplified

For when those riches are lost in bad investments and he becomes the father of a son, then there is nothing in his hand [for the support of the child].

Bible in Basic English

And I saw the destruction of his wealth by an evil chance; and when he became the father of a son he had nothing in his hand.

Darby Translation

or those riches perish by some evil circumstance, and if he have begotten a son, there is nothing in his hand.

Julia Smith Translation

And those riches shall perish by evil labor: and he begetting a son, and not anything in his hand.

King James 2000

But those riches are lost by a bad venture: when he begets a son, there is nothing in his hand.

Modern King James verseion

But those riches perish by evil use. And he brings forth a son, and nothing is in his hand.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

For oft times they perish with his great misery and trouble: and if he have a child it getteth nothing.

NET Bible

Then that wealth was lost through bad luck; although he fathered a son, he has nothing left to give him.

New Heart English Bible

Those riches perish by misfortune, and if he has fathered a son, there is nothing in his hand.

The Emphasized Bible

and those riches perish, by being ill employed, - and though he begetteth a son, yet is there in his hand nothing at all.

Webster

But those riches perish by evil labor: and he begetteth a son, and there is nothing in his hand.

World English Bible

Those riches perish by misfortune, and if he has fathered a son, there is nothing in his hand.

Youngs Literal Translation

And that wealth hath been lost in an evil business, and he hath begotten a son and there is nothing in his hand!

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
עשׁר 
`osher 
Usage: 37

ענין 
`inyan 
Usage: 8

and he begetteth
ילד 
Yalad 
Usage: 497

and there is nothing
מאוּמה 
M@uwmah 
Usage: 32

Verse Info

Context Readings

Hoarding Wealth Can Backfire

13 There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun: wealth {hoarded} by its owner to his harm. 14 That wealth was lost in a bad venture. Although he has borne a child, {he has nothing to leave to him}. 15 Just as he came from his mother's womb naked, {he will depart} just as he came; he will take nothing with him for his toil.


Cross References

1 Samuel 2:6-8

Yahweh kills and restores alive, he brings down [to] Sheol and raises up.

1 Samuel 2:36

All the remainder of your household will come to bow down {before} him for a bit of silver or a loaf of bread and will say, "Please assign me to one of the {priestly offices} so that I can eat a morsel of bread." '"

1 Kings 14:26

and he took the treasures of the house of Yahweh, and he took all the treasures of the king's house. He took the small gold shields that Solomon had made,

Job 5:5

whose harvest [the] hungry eats, and he takes it {from behind} [the] thorns; and [the] thirsty pants after their wealth.

Job 20:15-29

He swallows riches, but he vomits them [up]; God drives them out from his stomach.

Job 27:16-17

If he heaps up silver like the dust and fashions clothing like the clay,

Psalm 39:6

Surely a man walks about as a [mere] {shadow}; surely in vain they bustle about. He heaps up [possessions] but does not know who [will] gather them [in].

Psalm 109:9-12

Let his children be orphans, and his wife a widow,

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 2:26

For to the person who [is] good in his eyes, he gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy; but to the sinner he gives the task of gathering and heaping up only to give [it] to [him who is] pleasing to him. This also [is] vanity and chasing wind!

Haggai 1:9

'You have looked for much, and look! [It came] to little; and [when] you brought [it] home, I blew it [away]. Why?' {declares} Yahweh of hosts. 'Because my house [is] desolate and you [are] running each to your own house!

Haggai 2:16-17

{from that time when} one came to a heap of twenty [measures], there were [only] ten, and [when] one came to the wine vat to draw out fifty measures, there were [only] twenty.

Matthew 6:19-20

"Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and consuming [insect] destroy and where thieves break in and steal,

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