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Ecclesiastes 5:11

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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?

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Ecclesiastes 5:11 in other translations

When 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?

Ecclesiastes 5:11 · American Standard Version

Ecclesiastes 5:11 in context

  1. 9Moreover the profit of the earth is for all. The king profits from the field.
  2. 10He who loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he who loves abundance, with increase: this also is vanity.
  3. 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?
  4. 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.
  5. 13There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun: wealth kept by its owner to his harm.