Ecclesiastes 5:11

“When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: and what good is there to the owners thereof, saving the beholding of them with their eyes?”
King James Version (KJV)

Other Translations of Ecclesiastes 5:11

When goods increase, they are increased that eate them: and what good is there to the owners thereof, sauing the beholding of them with their eyes?
- King James Version (1611) - Compare to scan of original Ecclesiastes chapter 5

When good things increase, those who consume them increase. So what is the advantage to their owners except to look on?
- New American Standard Version (1995)

When goods increase, they are increased that eat them; and what advantage is there to the owner thereof, save the beholding `of them' with his eyes?
- American Standard Version (1901)

When goods are increased, the number of those who take of them is increased; and what profit has the owner but to see them?
- Basic English Bible

When goods increase, they are increased that eat them; and what profit is there to the owner thereof, except the beholding [of them] with his eyes?
- Darby Bible

Sleep is sweet to a labouring man, whether he eat lttle or much: but the fulness of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.
- Douay Rheims Bible

When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: and what good is there to the owners of them, saving the beholding of them with their eyes?
- Webster's Bible

When goods increase, those who eat them are increased; and what advantage is there to its owner, except to feast on them with his eyes?
- World English Bible

In the multiplying of good have its consumers been multiplied, and what benefit [is] to its possessor except the sight of his eyes?
- Youngs Literal Bible

(5:10) When goods increase, they are increased that eat them; and what advantage is there to the owner thereof, saving the beholding of them with his eyes?
- Jewish Publication Society Bible

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