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Ecclesiastes 5:12

American Standard Version

The 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.

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Ecclesiastes 5:12 in other translations

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.

Ecclesiastes 5:12 · World English Bible

Ecclesiastes 5:12 in context

  1. 10He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance, with increase: this also is vanity.
  2. 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?
  3. 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.
  4. 13There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept by the owner thereof to his hurt:
  5. 14and those riches perish by evil adventure; and if he hath begotten a son, there is nothing in his hand.