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


In Context

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.

15 As he came forth naked from his mother's womb, so shall he return, and shall take nothing away with him of his labour.

16 A most deplorable evil: as he came, so shall he return. What then doth it profit him that he hath laboured for the wind?

Ecclesiastes 5:14 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

5:14But those riches perish by evil travail: and he begetteth a son, and [there is] nothing in his hand.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

5:14or wealth lost through some misfortune, so that when he has a son there is nothing left for him.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

5:14and those riches perish by evil adventure; and if he hath begotten a son, there is nothing in his hand.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:14or those riches perish by some evil circumstance, and if he have begotten a son, there is nothing in his hand.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

5:14and those riches perish by evil adventure; and if he hath begotten a son, there is nothing in his hand.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:14But those riches perish by evil labor: and he begetteth a son, and there is nothing in his hand.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

5:14Those riches perish by misfortune, and if he has fathered a son, there is nothing in his hand.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

5:14And that wealth hath been lost in an evil business, and he hath begotten a son and there is nothing in his hand!

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

5:14But those riches perish by evil travail: and he begets a son, and there is nothing in his hand.