Parallel Verses
Modern King James verseion
He who loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver, and he who loves abundance not with gain. This is also vanity.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity.
Holman Bible
The one who loves money is never satisfied with money, and whoever loves wealth is never satisfied with income. This too is futile.
International Standard Version
Whoever loves money will never have enough money. Whoever loves luxury will not be content with abundance. This also is pointless.
A Conservative Version
He who loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver, nor he who loves abundance, with increase. This also is vanity.
American Standard Version
He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance, with increase: this also is vanity.
Amplified
He who loves money will not be satisfied with money, nor he who loves abundance with its gain. This too is vanity (emptiness).
Bible in Basic English
He who has a love for silver never has enough silver, or he who has love for wealth, enough profit. This again is to no purpose.
Darby Translation
He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver, nor he that loveth abundance with increase. This also is vanity.
Julia Smith Translation
He loving silver shall not be satisfied with silver; and whoever loved not the increase with the multitude. Also this is vanity.
King James 2000
He that loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loves abundance, with increase: this is also vanity.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Whoever loves money is not satisfied [with] money, and whoever loves wealth [is] not [satisfied with] profit. This also [is] vanity!
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
He that loveth money, will never be satisfied with money: and whoso delighteth in riches, shall have no profit thereof. Is not this also a vain thing?
NET Bible
The one who loves money will never be satisfied with money, he who loves wealth will never be satisfied with his income. This also is futile.
New Heart English Bible
He who loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he who loves abundance, with increase: this also is vanity.
The Emphasized Bible
He that loveth silver, shall not be satisfied with silver nor, he that loveth abundance, with revenue, - -even this, was vanity.
Webster
He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity.
World English Bible
He who loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he who loves abundance, with increase: this also is vanity.
Youngs Literal Translation
Whoso is loving silver is not satisfied with silver, nor he who is in love with stores with increase. Even this is vanity.
Themes
Covetousness » Is never satisfied
greed » Results of » Disappointment
Riches » Described as » Unsatisfying
Satisfaction » Who shall not be satisfied
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Ecclesiastes 5:10
Verse Info
Context Readings
There Is Never Enough Money To Satisfy
9 And the advantage of a land, it is for all; even a king has a field being tilled. 10 He who loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver, and he who loves abundance not with gain. This is also vanity. 11 When the good thing increases, those who eat it increase; then what profit is it to its owners, except to see it with their eyes?
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Cross References
Ecclesiastes 4:8
There is one alone, and there is not a second; yea, he has neither son nor brother; yet there is no end to all his labor; and his eyes are not satisfied with riches; and he says, For whom do I labor and take good from my soul? This is also vanity. Yes, it is an evil business.
Ecclesiastes 2:11
Then I looked on all the works that my hands had done, and on the labor that I had labored to do; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit; and there is no profit under the sun.
Matthew 6:24
No one can serve two masters. For either he will hate the one and love the other, or else he will hold to the one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.
Luke 12:15
And He said to them, Watch and keep yourselves from covetousness. For a man's life is not in the abundance of the things which he possesses.
1 Timothy 6:10
For the love of money is a root of all evils, of which some having lusted after, they were seduced from the faith and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.
Psalm 52:1
To the Chief Musician. A contemplation. A Psalm of David, when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul, and said to him, David has come to the house of Ahimelech. Why do you boast yourself in evil, O mighty man? The mercy of God endures forever.
Psalm 52:7
Behold, the man who did not make God his strength, but trusted in the abundance of his riches, he was strong in his wickedness.
Psalm 62:10
Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery; if riches increase, do not set your heart on them.
Proverbs 30:15-16
The leech has two daughters, crying, Give, give! Three things are never satisfied, yea, four things never say, Enough!
Ecclesiastes 1:17
And I gave my heart to know wisdom and to know madness and folly; I know that this also is vexation of spirit.
Ecclesiastes 2:17-18
Therefore I hated life; because the work that is done under the sun is sad to me; for all is vanity and vexation of spirit.
Ecclesiastes 2:26
For God gives wisdom, and knowledge, and joy to a man who is good in His sight. But to the sinner He gives labor, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him who is good before God. This also is vanity and vexation of spirit.
Ecclesiastes 3:19
For that which happens to the sons of men also happens to beasts, even one thing happens to them. As this one dies, so that one dies; yea, they all have one breath; so that a man has no advantage over a beast; for all is vanity.
Ecclesiastes 4:4
Again, I considered all labor, and every right work, that for this a man is envied by his neighbor. This is also vanity and vexation of spirit.
Ecclesiastes 4:16
There is no end of all the people, of all who have been before them; they also who come after shall not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and vexation of spirit.
Ecclesiastes 6:7
All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.
Habakkuk 2:5-7
And also wine indeed betrays a proud man, and he is not content. He widens his soul like Sheol, and he is like death, and is not satisfied, but gathers all nations to himself, and heaps to himself all the peoples.
Matthew 6:19
Do not lay up treasures on earth for yourselves, where moth and rust corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal.