Ecclesiastes 5:11

Bible in Basic English (1941)

The sleep of a working man is sweet, if he has little food or much; but to him who is full, sleep will not come.

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  • Gen 12:16 : 16 And because of her, he was good to Abram, and he had sheep and oxen and asses, and men-servants and women-servants, and camels.
  • Gen 13:2 : 2 Now Abram had great wealth of cattle and silver and gold.
  • Gen 13:5-7 : 5 And Lot, who went with him, had flocks and herds and tents; 6 So that the land was not wide enough for the two of them: their property was so great that there was not room for them together. 7 And there was an argument between the keepers of Abram's cattle and the keepers of Lot's cattle: at that time the Canaanites and Perizzites were still living in the land.
  • Josh 7:21-25 : 21 When I saw among their goods a fair robe of Babylon and two hundred shekels of silver, and a mass of gold, fifty shekels in weight, I was overcome by desire and took them; and they are put away in the earth in my tent, and the silver is under it. 22 So Joshua sent men quickly, and looking in his tent, they saw where the robe had been put away secretly with the silver under it. 23 And they took them from the tent and came back with them to Joshua and the children of Israel, and put them before the Lord. 24 Then Joshua and all Israel took Achan, the son of Zerah, and the silver and the robe and the mass of gold, and his sons and his daughters and his oxen and his asses and his sheep and his tent and everything he had; and they took them up into the valley of Achor. 25 And Joshua said, Why have you been a cause of trouble to us? Today the Lord will send trouble on you. And all Israel took part in stoning him; they had him stoned to death and then burned with fire.
  • 1 Kgs 4:22-23 : 22 And the amount of Solomon's food for one day was thirty measures of crushed grain and sixty measures of meal; 23 Ten fat oxen and twenty oxen from the fields, and a hundred sheep, in addition to harts and gazelles and roes and fat fowls.
  • 1 Kgs 5:13-16 : 13 Then King Solomon got together men for the forced work through all Israel, thirty thousand men in number; 14 And sent them to Lebanon in bands of ten thousand every month: for a month they were working in Lebanon and for two months in their country, and Adoniram was in control of them. 15 Then he had seventy thousand for the work of transport, and eighty thousand stone-cutters in the mountains; 16 In addition to the chiefs of the responsible men put by Solomon to oversee the work, three thousand and three hundred in authority over the workmen.
  • Neh 5:17-18 : 17 And more than this, a hundred and fifty of the Jews and the rulers were guests at my table, in addition to those who came to us from the nations round about us. 18 Now the food made ready for one day was one ox and six fat sheep, as well as fowls; and once in ten days a store of all sorts of wine: but all the same, I did not take the food to which the ruler had a right, because the people were crushed under a hard yoke.
  • Ps 119:36-37 : 36 Let my heart be turned to your unchanging word, and not to evil desire. 37 Let my eyes be turned away from what is false; give me life in your ways.
  • Prov 23:5 : 5 Are your eyes lifted up to it? it is gone: for wealth takes to itself wings, like an eagle in flight up to heaven.
  • Eccl 6:9 : 9 What the eyes see is better than the wandering of desire. This is to no purpose and a desire for wind.
  • Eccl 11:9 : 9 Have joy, O young man, while you are young; and let your heart be glad in the days of your strength, and go in the ways of your heart, and in the desire of your eyes; but be certain that for all these things God will be your judge.
  • Jer 17:11 : 11 Like the partridge, getting eggs together but not producing young, is a man who gets wealth but not by right; before half his days are ended, it will go from him, and at his end he will be foolish.
  • Hab 2:13 : 13 See, is it not the pleasure of the Lord of armies that the peoples are working for the fire and using themselves up for nothing?
  • 1 John 2:16 : 16 Because everything in the world, the desire of the flesh, the desire of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father but of the world.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Eccl 5:9-10
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    9 He who has a love for silver never has enough silver, or he who has love for wealth, enough profit. This again is to no purpose.

    10 When goods are increased, the number of those who take of them is increased; and what profit has the owner but to see them?

  • Eccl 5:12-14
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    12 There is a great evil which I have seen under the sun--wealth kept by the owner to be his downfall.

    13 And I saw the destruction of his wealth by an evil chance; and when he became the father of a son he had nothing in his hand.

    14 As he came from his mother at birth, so does he go again; he gets from his work no reward which he may take away in his hand.

  • Eccl 6:1-2
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    1 There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is hard on men;

    2 A man to whom God gives money, wealth, and honour so that he has all his desires but God does not give him the power to have joy of it, and a strange man takes it. This is to no purpose and an evil disease.

  • Prov 13:11
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    11 Wealth quickly got will become less; but he who gets a store by the work of his hands will have it increased.

  • Prov 1:19
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    19 Such is the fate of everyone who goes in search of profit; it takes away the life of its owners.

  • Eccl 5:18-19
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    18 Every man to whom God has given money and wealth and the power to have pleasure in it and to do his part and have joy in his work: this is given by God.

    19 He will not give much thought to the days of his life; because God lets him be taken up with the joy of his heart.

  • Eccl 6:7-9
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    7 All the work of man is for his mouth, and still he has a desire for food.

    8 What have the wise more than the foolish? and what has the poor man by walking wisely before the living?

    9 What the eyes see is better than the wandering of desire. This is to no purpose and a desire for wind.

  • Eccl 2:24-26
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    24 There is nothing better for a man than taking meat and drink, and having delight in his work. This again I saw was from the hand of God.

    25 Who may take food or have pleasure without him?

    26 To the man with whom he is pleased, God gives wisdom and knowledge and joy; but to the sinner he gives the work of getting goods together and storing up wealth, to give to him in whom God has pleasure. This again is to no purpose and desire for wind.

  • Eccl 6:11
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    11 There are words without number for increasing what is to no purpose, but what is man profited by them?

  • Prov 20:14
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    14 A poor thing, a poor thing, says he who is giving money for goods: but when he has gone on his way, then he makes clear his pride in what he has got.

  • Prov 11:24
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    24 A man may give freely, and still his wealth will be increased; and another may keep back more than is right, but only comes to be in need.

  • Ps 39:6
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    6 Truly, every man goes on his way like an image; he is troubled for no purpose: he makes a great store of wealth, and has no knowledge of who will get it.

  • Eccl 4:8
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    8 It is one who is by himself, without a second, and without son or brother; but there is no end to all his work, and he has never enough of wealth. For whom, then, am I working and keeping myself from pleasure? This again is to no purpose, and a bitter work.

  • Eccl 1:8
    72%

    8 All things are full of weariness; man may not give their story: the eye has never enough of its seeing, or the ear of its hearing.

  • Luke 12:21
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    21 So that is what comes to the man who gets wealth for himself, and has not wealth in the eyes of God.

  • Prov 28:22
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    22 He who is ever desiring wealth goes running after money, and does not see that need will come on him.

  • Prov 23:4-5
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    4 Take no care to get wealth; let there be an end to your desire for money.

    5 Are your eyes lifted up to it? it is gone: for wealth takes to itself wings, like an eagle in flight up to heaven.

  • Eccl 2:21
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    21 Because there is a man whose work has been done with wisdom, with knowledge, and with an expert hand; but one who has done nothing for it will have it for his heritage. This again is to no purpose and a great evil.

  • Eccl 2:10-11
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    10 And nothing which was desired by my eyes did I keep from them; I did not keep any joy from my heart, because my heart took pleasure in all my work, and this was my reward.

    11 Then I saw all the works which my hands had made, and everything I had been working to do; and I saw that all was to no purpose and desire for wind, and there was no profit under the sun.

  • Eccl 3:9
    71%

    9 What profit has the worker in the work which he does?

  • Eccl 1:3
    71%

    3 What is a man profited by all his work which he does under the sun?

  • Ps 62:10
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    10 Have no faith in the rewards of evil-doing, or in profits wrongly made: if your wealth is increased, do not put your hopes on it.

  • Eccl 7:11
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    11 Wisdom together with a heritage is good, and a profit to those who see the sun.

  • Prov 13:7
    71%

    7 A man may be acting as if he had wealth, but have nothing; another may seem poor, but have great wealth.

  • Eccl 3:22
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    22 So I saw that there is nothing better than for a man to have joy in his work--because that is his reward. Who will make him see what will come after him?

  • Hab 2:6
    71%

    6 Will not all these take up a word of shame against him and a bitter saying against him, and say, A curse on him who goes on taking what is not his and is weighted down with the property of debtors!

  • Deut 8:13
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    13 And when your herds and your flocks are increased, and your stores of silver and gold, and you have wealth of every sort;

  • Prov 28:8
    70%

    8 He who makes his wealth greater by taking interest, only gets it together for him who has pity on the poor.

  • Prov 5:10
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    10 And strange men may be full of your wealth, and the fruit of your work go to the house of others;

  • Job 20:18
    70%

    18 He is forced to give back the fruit of his work, and may not take it for food; he has no joy in the profit of his trading.

  • Luke 12:15
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    15 And he said to them, Take care to keep yourselves free from the desire for property; for a man's life is not made up of the number of things which he has.

  • Eccl 5:16
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    16 All his days are in the dark, and he has much sorrow, pain, disease, and trouble.

  • Prov 28:19
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    19 By ploughing his land a man will have bread in full measure; but he who goes after good-for-nothing persons will be poor enough.

  • Ps 73:12
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    12 Truly, such are the sinners; they do well at all times, and their wealth is increased.

  • Job 20:21
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    21 He had never enough for his desire; for this cause his well-being will quickly come to an end.

  • Ps 49:6
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    6 Even of those whose faith is in their wealth, and whose hearts are lifted up because of their stores.

  • Eccl 4:6
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    6 One hand full of rest is better than two hands full of trouble and desire for wind.

  • Prov 13:23
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    23 There is much food in the ploughed land of the poor; but it is taken away by wrongdoing.

  • Luke 12:19
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    19 And I will say to my soul, Soul, you have a great amount of goods in store, enough for a number of years; be at rest, take food and wine and be happy.