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.


In Context

9 And the abundance of a land is for all. A king for a field is served.

10 Whoso is loving silver is not satisfied with silver, nor he who is in love with stores with increase. Even this is vanity.

11 In the multiplying of good have its consumers been multiplied, and what benefit is to its possessor except the sight of his eyes?

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

13 There is a painful evil I have seen under the sun: wealth kept for its possessor, for his evil.

14 And that wealth hath been lost in an evil business, and he hath begotten a son and 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 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 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.