12Sleep is sweet to a labouring man, whether he eat lttle or much: but the fulness of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.


In Context

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.

14 For they are lost with very great affliction: he hath begotten a son, who shall be in extremity of want.

Ecclesiastes 5:12 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

5:12The sleep of a labouring man [is] sweet, whether he eat little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

5:12The sleep of a laborer is sweet, whether he eats little or much, but the abundance of a rich man permits him no sleep.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

5:12The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much; but the fulness of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:12The sleep of the labourer is sweet, whether he have eaten little or much; but the fulness of the rich doth not suffer him to sleep.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

5:12The sleep of a labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much: but the fulness of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:12The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eateth little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:12The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eats little or much; but the abundance of the rich will not allow him to sleep.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

5:12Sweet is the sleep of the labourer whether he eat little or much; and the sufficiency of the wealthy is not suffering him to sleep.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

5:12The 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.