13There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt.


In Context

10 He that loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loves abundance with increase: this is also vanity.

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?

12 The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.

13 There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt.

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

15 As he came forth of his mother's womb, naked shall he return to go as he came, and shall take nothing of his labor, which he may carry away in his hand.

Ecclesiastes 5:13 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

5:13There is a sore evil [which] I have seen under the sun, [namely,] riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

5:13I have seen a grievous evil under the sun: wealth hoarded to the harm of its owner,

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

5:13There is also another grievous evil, which I have seen under the sun: riches kept to the hurt of the owner.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

5:13There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun, namely , riches kept by the owner thereof to his hurt:

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:13There is a grievous evil that I have seen under the sun: riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt;

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

5:13There is a grievous evil, which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept by the owner thereof to his hurt:

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:13There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept for the owners of them to their hurt.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:13There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun: wealth kept by its owner to his harm.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

5:13There is a painful evil I have seen under the sun: wealth kept for its possessor, for his evil.