Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
In the multitude of good they were multiplied eating it: and what the success to its possessors but seeing with his eyes?
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
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?
Holman Bible
When good things increase, the ones who consume them multiply; what, then, is the profit to the owner, except to gaze at them with his eyes?
International Standard Version
When possessions increase, so does the number of consumers; therefore what good are they to their owners, except to look at them?
A Conservative Version
When goods increase, they are increased who eat them. And what advantage is there to the owner of it, except the beholding [of them] with his eyes?
American Standard Version
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?
Amplified
When good things increase, those who consume them increase. So what advantage is there to their owners except to see them with their eyes?
Bible in Basic English
When goods are increased, the number of those who take of them is increased; and what profit has the owner but to see them?
Darby Translation
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?
King James 2000
When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: so what good is there to the owners, except the beholding of them with their eyes?
Lexham Expanded Bible
When prosperity increases, those who consume it increase. {So its owner gains nothing, except to see his wealth before it is spent}.
Modern King James verseion
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?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Whereas many riches are, there are many also that spend them away. And what pleasure more hath he that possesseth them, saving that he may look upon them with his eyes?
NET Bible
When someone's prosperity increases, those who consume it also increase; so what does its owner gain, except that he gets to see it with his eyes?
New Heart English 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?
The Emphasized Bible
When blessings are increased, increased are the eaters thereof, - what profit, then, to the owner of them saving the sight of his eyes?
Webster
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?
World English 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?
Youngs Literal Translation
In the multiplying of good have its consumers been multiplied, and what benefit is to its possessor except the sight of his eyes?
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Ecclesiastes 5:11
Verse Info
Context Readings
There Is Never Enough Money To Satisfy
10 He loving silver shall not be satisfied with silver; and whoever loved not the increase with the multitude. Also this is vanity. 11 In the multitude of good they were multiplied eating it: and what the success to its possessors but seeing with his eyes? 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.
Phrases
Cross References
Genesis 12:16
And he will do good to Abram on account of her; and there shall be to him sheep and oxen and he-asses, and servants and maids, and she-asses and camels.
Genesis 13:2
And Abram was very abundant in cattle, in silver and in gold.
Genesis 13:5-7
And to Lot also going with Abram, were sheep and oxen and tents.
Joshua 7:21-25
And I shall see in the plunder a wide cloak of Shinar, a good one, and two hundred shekels of silver and one tongue of gold of fifty shekels from its weight, and I shall desire them, and shall take them, and behold them hid in the earth in the midst of my tent, and the silver under it.
1 Kings 4:22-23
And the bread of Solomon for one day will be thirty cors of fine flour, and sixty cors of meal,
1 Kings 5:13-16
And king Solomon will bring up a tribute from all Israel; and the tribute will be thirty thousand men.
Nehemiah 5:17-18
And the Jews and prefects a hundred and fifty men, and they coming to us from the nations that were round about us; to my table
Psalm 119:36-37
Incline my heart to thy testimonies and not to plunder.
Proverbs 23:5
Wilt thou cause thine eyes to fly upon it and it is not? for making, it will make to it wings; as an eagle and it flew to the heavens.
Ecclesiastes 6:9
Good the sight of the eyes above the going of the soul. Also this is vanity and striving of spirit
Ecclesiastes 11:9
Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and thy heart shall do thee good in the days of thy youth, and go in the ways of thy heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: and know thou, that for all these God will bring thee into judgment
Jeremiah 17:11
The partridge brooded and she brought not forth; to make riches and not in judgment, he shall leave them in the half of his days, and in his latter part he shall be foolish.
Habakkuk 2:13
Behold, is it not from Jehovah of armies, and the peoples shall labor in a sufficiency of fire, and the peoples shall be wearied in a sufficiency of emptiness?
1 John 2:16
For every thing which in the world, the eager desire of the flesh, and the eager desire of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world.