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?


In Context

8 If you see the oppression of the poor, and the violent taking away of justice and righteousness in a district, don't marvel at the matter: for one official is eyed by a higher one; and there are officials over them.

9 Moreover the profit of the earth is for all. The king profits from the field.

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

11 When goods increase, those who eat them are increased; and what advantage is there to its owner, except to feast on them with his eyes?

12 The 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.

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

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 Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

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?

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 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?