Parallel Verses
New Heart English Bible
Those riches perish by misfortune, and if he has fathered a son, there is nothing in his hand.
New American Standard Bible
When those riches were lost through
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.
Lexham Expanded Bible
That wealth was lost in a bad venture. Although he has borne a child, {he has nothing to leave to him}.
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.
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!
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Ecclesiastes 5:14
Verse Info
Context Readings
Hoarding Wealth Can Backfire
13 There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun: wealth kept by its owner to his harm. 14 Those riches perish by misfortune, and if he has fathered a son, there is nothing in his hand. 15 As he came forth from his mother's womb, naked shall he go again as he came, and shall take nothing for his labor, which he may carry away in his hand.
Cross References
1 Samuel 2:6-8
"The LORD kills, and makes alive. He brings down to Sheol, and brings up.
1 Samuel 2:36
It shall happen, that everyone who is left in your house shall come and bow down to him for a piece of silver and a loaf of bread, and shall say, "Please put me into one of the priests' offices, that I may eat a morsel of bread."'"
1 Kings 14:26
and he took away the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king's house; he even took away all: and he took away all the shields of gold which Solomon had made.
Job 5:5
whose harvest the hungry eats up, and take it even out of the thorns. The snare gapes for their substance.
Job 20:15-29
He has swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again. God will cast them out of his belly.
Job 27:16-17
Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare clothing as the clay;
Psalm 39:6
"Surely every man walks like a shadow. Surely they busy themselves in vain. He heaps up, and doesn't know who shall gather.
Psalm 109:9-12
Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow.
Proverbs 23:5
Why do you set your eyes on that which is not? For it certainly sprouts wings like an eagle and flies in the sky.
Ecclesiastes 2:26
For to the man who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy; but to the sinner he gives travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him who pleases God. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.
Haggai 1:9
"You looked for much, and, behold, it came to little; and when you brought it home, I blew it away. Why?" says the LORD of hosts, "Because of my house that lies waste, while each of you is busy with his own house.
Haggai 2:16-17
Through all that time, when one came to a heap of twenty measures, there were only ten. When one came to the wine vat to draw out fifty, there were only twenty.
Matthew 6:19-20
"Do not lay up treasures for yourselves on the earth, where moth and rust consume, and where thieves break through and steal;