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.


In Context

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.

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

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 Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

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

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 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.