Ecclesiastes 5:11

World English Bible (2000)

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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  • Gen 12:16 : 16 He dealt well with Abram for her sake. He had sheep, cattle, male donkeys, male servants, female servants, female donkeys, and camels.
  • Gen 13:2 : 2 Abram was very rich in livestock, in silver, and in gold.
  • Gen 13:5-7 : 5 Lot also, who went with Abram, had flocks, and herds, and tents. 6 The land was not able to bear them, that they might live together: for their substance was great, so that they could not live together. 7 There was a strife between the herdsmen of Abram's livestock and the herdsmen of Lot's livestock: and the Canaanite and the Perizzite lived in the land at that time.
  • Josh 7:21-25 : 21 When I saw among the spoil a beautiful Babylonian robe, two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of gold weighing fifty shekels, then I coveted them and took them. Behold, they are hidden in the ground in the middle of my tent, with the silver under it." 22 So Joshua sent messengers, and they ran to the tent. Behold, it was hidden in his tent, with the silver under it. 23 They took them from the middle of the tent, and brought them to Joshua and to all the children of Israel. They laid them down before Yahweh. 24 Joshua, and all Israel with him, took Achan the son of Zerah, the silver, the robe, the wedge of gold, his sons, his daughters, his cattle, his donkeys, his sheep, his tent, and all that he had; and they brought them up to the valley of Achor. 25 Joshua said, "Why have you troubled us? Yahweh will trouble you this day." All Israel stoned him with stones, and they burned them with fire and stoned them with stones.
  • 1 Kgs 4:22-23 : 22 Solomon's provision for one day was thirty measures of fine flour, and sixty measures of meal, 23 ten head of fat cattle, and twenty head of cattle out of the pastures, and one hundred sheep, besides harts, and gazelles, and roebucks, and fattened fowl.
  • 1 Kgs 5:13-16 : 13 King Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel; and the levy was thirty thousand men. 14 He sent them to Lebanon, ten thousand a month by courses; a month they were in Lebanon, and two months at home; and Adoniram was over the men subject to forced labor. 15 Solomon had seventy thousand who bore burdens, and eighty thousand who were stone cutters in the mountains; 16 besides Solomon's chief officers who were over the work, three thousand and three hundred, who bore rule over the people who labored in the work.
  • Neh 5:17-18 : 17 Moreover there were at my table, of the Jews and the rulers, one hundred fifty men, besides those who came to us from among the nations that were around us. 18 Now that which was prepared for one day was one ox and six choice sheep; also fowls were prepared for me, and once in ten days store of all sorts of wine: yet for all this I didn't demand the bread of the governor, because the bondage was heavy on this people.
  • Ps 119:36-37 : 36 Turn my heart toward your statutes, not toward selfish gain. 37 Turn my eyes away from looking at worthless things. Revive me in your ways.
  • Prov 23:5 : 5 Why do you set your eyes on that which is not? For it certainly sprouts wings like an eagle and flies in the sky.
  • Eccl 6:9 : 9 Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.
  • Eccl 11:9 : 9 Rejoice, young man, in your youth, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth, and walk in the ways of your heart, and in the sight of your eyes; but know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment.
  • Jer 17:11 : 11 As the partridge that sits on [eggs] which she has not laid, so is he who gets riches, and not by right; in the midst of his days they shall leave him, and at his end he shall be a fool.
  • Hab 2:13 : 13 Behold, isn't it of Yahweh of Armies that the peoples labor for the fire, and the nations weary themselves for vanity?
  • 1 John 2:16 : 16 For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, isn't the Father's, but is the world's.

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    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.

  • Eccl 5:12-14
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    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.

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

    2 a man to whom God gives riches, wealth, and honor, so that he lacks nothing for his soul of all that he desires, yet God gives him no power to eat of it, but an alien eats it. This is vanity, and it is an evil disease.

  • Prov 13:11
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    11 Wealth gained dishonestly dwindles away, but he who gathers by hand makes it grow.

  • Prov 1:19
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    19 So are the ways of everyone who is greedy for gain. It takes away the life of its owners.

  • Eccl 5:18-19
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    18 Behold, that which I have seen to be good and proper is for one to eat and to drink, and to enjoy good in all his labor, in which he labors under the sun, all the days of his life which God has given him; for this is his portion.

    19 Every man also to whom God has given riches and wealth, and has given him power to eat of it, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his labor--this is the gift of God.

  • Eccl 6:7-9
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    7 All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.

    8 For what advantage has the wise more than the fool? What has the poor man, that knows how to walk before the living?

    9 Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.

  • Eccl 2:24-26
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    24 There is nothing better for a man than that he should eat and drink, and make his soul enjoy good in his labor. This also I saw, that it is from the hand of God.

    25 For who can eat, or who can have enjoyment, more than I?

    26 For to the man who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy; but to the sinner he gives travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him who pleases God. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.

  • Eccl 6:11
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    11 For there are many words that create vanity. What does that profit man?

  • Prov 20:14
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    14 "It's no good, it's no good," says the buyer; but when he is gone his way, then he boasts.

  • Prov 11:24
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    24 There is one who scatters, and increases yet more. There is one who withholds more than is appropriate, but gains poverty.

  • Ps 39:6
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    6 "Surely every man walks like a shadow. Surely they busy themselves in vain. He heaps up, and doesn't know who shall gather.

  • Eccl 4:8
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    8 There is one who is alone, and he has neither son nor brother. There is no end to all of his labor, neither are his eyes satisfied with wealth. "For whom then, do I labor, and deprive my soul of enjoyment?" This also is vanity. Yes, it is a miserable business.

  • Eccl 1:8
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    8 All things are full of weariness beyond uttering. The eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.

  • Luke 12:21
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    21 So is he who lays up treasure for himself, and is not rich toward God."

  • Prov 28:22
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    22 A stingy man hurries after riches, and doesn't know that poverty waits for him.

  • Prov 23:4-5
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    4 Don't weary yourself to be rich. In your wisdom, show restraint.

    5 Why do you set your eyes on that which is not? For it certainly sprouts wings like an eagle and flies in the sky.

  • Eccl 2:21
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    21 For there is a man whose labor is with wisdom, with knowledge, and with skillfulness; yet he shall leave it for his portion to a man who has not labored for it. This also is vanity and a great evil.

  • Eccl 2:10-11
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    10 Whatever my eyes desired, I didn't keep from them. I didn't withhold my heart from any joy, for my heart rejoiced because of all my labor, and this was my portion from all my labor.

    11 Then I looked at all the works that my hands had worked, and at the labor that I had labored to do; and behold, all was vanity and a chasing after wind, and there was no profit under the sun.

  • Eccl 3:9
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    9 What profit has he who works in that in which he labors?

  • Eccl 1:3
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    3 What does man gain from all his labor in which he labors under the sun?

  • Ps 62:10
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    10 Don't trust in oppression. Don't become vain in robbery. If riches increase, don't set your heart on them.

  • Eccl 7:11
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    11 Wisdom is as good as an inheritance. Yes, it is more excellent for those who see the sun.

  • Prov 13:7
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    7 There are some who pretend to be rich, yet have nothing. There are some who pretend to be poor, yet have great wealth.

  • Eccl 3:22
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    22 Therefore I saw that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his works; for that is his portion: for who can bring him to see what will be after him?

  • Hab 2:6
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    6 Won't all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, 'Woe to him who increases that which is not his, and who enriches himself by extortion! How long?'

  • Deut 8:13
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    13 and when your herds and your flocks multiply, and your silver and your gold is multiplied, and all that you have is multiplied;

  • Prov 28:8
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    8 He who increases his wealth by excessive interest gathers it for one who has pity on the poor.

  • Prov 5:10
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    10 lest strangers feast on your wealth, and your labors enrich another man's house.

  • Job 20:18
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    18 That for which he labored he shall restore, and shall not swallow it down. According to the substance that he has gotten, he shall not rejoice.

  • Luke 12:15
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    15 He said to them, "Beware! Keep yourselves from covetousness, for a man's life doesn't consist of the abundance of the things which he possesses."

  • Eccl 5:16
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    16 This also is a grievous evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go. And what profit does he have who labors for the wind?

  • Prov 28:19
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    19 One who works his land will have an abundance of food; but one who chases fantasies will have his fill of poverty.

  • Ps 73:12
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    12 Behold, these are the wicked. Being always at ease, they increase in riches.

  • Job 20:21
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    21 There was nothing left that he didn't devour, therefore his prosperity shall not endure.

  • Ps 49:6
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    6 Those who trust in their wealth, and boast in the multitude of their riches--

  • Eccl 4:6
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    6 Better is a handful, with quietness, than two handfuls with labor and chasing after wind.

  • Prov 13:23
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    23 An abundance of food is in poor people's fields, but injustice sweeps it away.

  • Luke 12:19
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    19 I will tell my soul, "Soul, you have many goods laid up for many years. Take your ease, eat, drink, be merry."'