11Where there are great riches, there are also many to eat them. And what doth it profit the owner, but that he seeth the riches with his eyes?


In Context

8 If thou shalt see the oppressions of the poor, and violent judgments, and justice perverted in the province, wonder not at this matter: for he that is high hath another higher, and there are others still higher than these:

9 Moreover there is the king that reigneth over all the land subject to him.

10 A covetous man shall not be satisfied with money: and he that loveth riches shall reap no fruit from them: so this also is vanity.

11 Where there are great riches, there are also many to eat them. And what doth it profit the owner, but that he seeth the riches with his eyes?

12 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.

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

Ecclesiastes 5:11 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

5:11When 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?

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

5:11As goods increase, so do those who consume them. And what benefit are they to the owner except to feast his eyes on them?

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

5:11When 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?

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:11When 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?

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

5:11When 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?

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:11When 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?

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:11When 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 Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

5:11In the multiplying of good have its consumers been multiplied, and what benefit is to its possessor except the sight of his eyes?

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

5:11When 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?