11As goods increase, so do those who consume them. And what benefit are they to the owner except to feast his eyes on them?
11As goods increase, so do those who consume them. And what benefit are they to the owner except to feast his eyes on them?
8 If you see the poor oppressed in a district, and justice and rights denied, do not be surprised at such things; for one official is eyed by a higher one, and over them both are others higher still.
9 The increase from the land is taken by all; the king himself profits from the fields.
10 Whoever loves money never has money enough; whoever loves wealth is never satisfied with his income. This too is meaningless.
11 As goods increase, so do those who consume them. And what benefit are they to the owner except to feast his eyes on them?
12 The sleep of a laborer is sweet, whether he eats little or much, but the abundance of a rich man permits him no sleep.
13 I have seen a grievous evil under the sun: wealth hoarded to the harm of its owner,
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?
5:11Where 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?
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?
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?
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?
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?
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?
5:11In the multiplying of good have its consumers been multiplied, and what benefit is to its possessor except the sight of his eyes?
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?