Verse 6

You have sown much, and bring in little; you eat, but do not have enough; you drink, but are not filled; you clothe yourselves, but no one is warm; and he who earns wages earns wages to put them into a bag with holes.

Other Translations

• GT, oversatt fra Hebraisk

  Dere har sådd mye, men bringer inn lite. Dere spiser, men har ikke nok. Dere drikker, men har ikke tilfredsstillelse. Dere kler dere, men ingen blir varm. Og den som tjener penger, legger dem i en hullete pung.

• Moderne oversettelse av Bibelen fra 1611 KJV med hebraisk kontekst

  Dere har sådd mye, men bringer inn lite. Dere spiser, men blir ikke mette. Dere drikker, men blir ikke tilfredse. Dere kler dere, men ingen blir varme. Og den som tjener penger, legger dem i en pung med hull.

• Norsk King James

  Dere har sådd mye, men høstet lite; dere spiser, men blir ikke mette; dere drikker, men får ikke nok; dere klær dere, men blir ikke varme; og den som tjener penger, må putte dem i en lomme med hull.

• Modernisert Norsk Bibel 1866

  Dere har sådd mye, men høstet lite. Dere spiser, men blir ikke mette. Dere drikker, men blir ikke utørste. Dere kler dere, men blir ikke varme. Og den som tjener penger, legger dem i en pung med hull.

• Oversettelse av hebraiske Bibeltekster til moderne norsk bokmål

  Dere sår mye, men høster lite. Dere spiser, men blir ikke mette. Dere drikker, men får ikke nok. Dere kler dere, men ingen blir varm. Og den som tjener penger, gjør det for en lomme med hull.

• Bibelen: En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611

  Dere har sådd mye, men høster lite; dere spiser, men har ikke nok; dere drikker, men blir ikke mette; dere kler dere, men ingen blir varme; dere som arbeider, tjener penger for å legge dem i en pung med hull.

• o3-mini KJV Norsk

  Dere har sådd rikelig, men høster lite; dere spiser, men mettes ikke; dere drikker, men blir ikke beruset; dere kler dere, men dere får ingen varme; og den som tjener penger, tjener dem bare for å legge dem i en sekk med hull.

• En Moderne Oversettelse av King James Version 1611 (mar 2025)

  Dere har sådd mye, men høster lite; dere spiser, men har ikke nok; dere drikker, men blir ikke mette; dere kler dere, men ingen blir varme; dere som arbeider, tjener penger for å legge dem i en pung med hull.

• Lingvistisk bibeloversettelse fra grunntekst

  Dere har sådd mye, men høstet lite. Dere spiser, men blir ikke mette. Dere drikker, men blir ikke tilfredsstilt. Deres klær gir ikke varme, og den som tjener penger, legger dem i en hullete pung.

• Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

  You have planted much but harvested little. You eat but are never satisfied. You drink but never have enough to be filled. You put on clothes but are not warm. The one who earns wages earns them to put into a bag with holes.

• biblecontext

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• GT, oversatt fra hebraisk Aug2024

  Dere har sådd mye, men høstet lite. Dere spiser, men blir ikke mette. Dere drikker, men blir ikke beruset. Dere kler dere, men får ikke varme. Den som tjener lønn, tjener den for å legge den i en pung med hull.

• Original Norsk Bibel 1866

  I saae Meget og føre Lidet ind, I æde og blive ikke mætte, drikke og blive ikke utørste, klæde eder og blive ikke varme (deraf), og den, som faaer Løn, faaer Løn i en brudden Pengeknude.

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages to put it into a bag with holes.

• KJV 1769 norsk

  Dere har sådd mye, men høstet lite; dere har spist, men blir ikke mette; dere har drukket, men blir ikke forsynt; dere kledde dere, men blir ikke varme; og han som tjener lønn, legger den i en sekk med hull.

• Norsk oversettelse av Webster

  Dere har sådd mye, men innhøstet lite. Dere spiser, men blir ikke mette. Dere drikker, men blir ikke utørstet. Dere kler dere, men ingen blir varm, og han som tjener lønn, legger den i en pung med hull.

• Norsk oversettelse av Youngs Literal Translation

  Dere har sådd mye, men høstet lite. Dere spiser, men blir ikke mette. Dere drikker, men blir ikke beruset. Dere klær dere, men ingen blir varm. Og den som tjener penger, tjener til en pung med hull.

• Norsk oversettelse av ASV1901

  Dere har sådd mye, men høster lite; dere spiser, men blir ikke mette; dere drikker, men blir ikke tilfredse; dere kler dere, men ingen blir varme; og den som tjener, tjener til en pung med hull.

• Norsk oversettelse av BBE

  Mye er plantet, men lite er høstet; dere spiser, men har ikke nok; dere drikker, men blir ikke mette; dere kler dere, men ingen blir varm; og den som jobber for lønn, legger det i en pung med hull.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  ye sowe moch, but ye bringe litle in: Ye eate, but ye haue not ynough: ye drinke, but ye are not fylled: ye decke youre selues, but ye are not warme: & he yt earneth eny wage, putteth it in a broken purse.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  Ye haue sowen much, and bring in litle: ye eate, but ye haue not ynough: ye drinke, but ye are not filled: ye clothe you, but ye be not warme: and he that earneth wages, putteth the wages into a broken bagge.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  Ye haue sowen much, but ye bryng litle in: ye eate, but ye haue not inough: ye drinke, but ye are not filled: ye cloth you, but ye be not warme: and he that earneth wages, putteth the wages into a broken bagge.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages [to put it] into a bag with holes.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  You have sown much, and bring in little. You eat, but you don't have enough. You drink, but you aren't filled with drink. You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm, and he who earns wages earns wages to put them into a bag with holes in it."

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  Ye have sown much, and brought in little, To eat, and not to satiety, To drink, and not to drunkenness, To clothe, and none hath heat, And he who is hiring himself out, Is hiring himself for a bag pierced through.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but ye have not enough; ye drink, but ye are not filled with drink; ye clothe you, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages [to put it] into a bag with holes.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  Much has been planted, but little got in; you take food, but have not enough; you take drink, but are not full; you are clothed, but no one is warm; and he who gets payment for his work, gets it to put it into a bag full of holes.

• World English Bible (2000)

  You have sown much, and bring in little. You eat, but you don't have enough. You drink, but you aren't filled with drink. You clothe yourselves, but no one is warm, and he who earns wages earns wages to put them into a bag with holes in it."

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  You have planted much, but have harvested little. You eat, but are never filled. You drink, but are still thirsty. You put on clothes, but are not warm. Those who earn wages end up with holes in their money bags.’”

Referenced Verses

• Hag 2:16 : 16 Since those days were, when one came to a heap of twenty measures, there were but ten; when one came to the wine vat to draw fifty measures, there were but twenty.
• Hos 4:10 : 10 For they shall eat, and not have enough; they shall commit harlotry, and shall not increase, because they have ceased taking heed to the LORD.
• Hos 8:7 : 7 For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. It has no stalk; the bud shall yield no meal. If it does yield, strangers shall swallow it up.
• Deut 28:38-40 : 38 You shall carry much seed out into the field, and shall gather but little in; for the locust shall consume it. 39 You shall plant vineyards, and dress them, but shall neither drink of the wine, nor gather the grapes; for the worms shall eat them. 40 You shall have olive trees throughout all your coasts, but you shall not anoint yourself with the oil; for your olive shall cast its fruit.
• Hag 1:9 : 9 You looked for much, but indeed it came to little; and when you brought it home, I blew it away. Why? says the LORD of hosts. Because of My house that is in ruins, while each of you runs to his own house.
• Mal 3:9-9 : 9 You are cursed with a curse, for you have robbed me, even this whole nation. 10 Bring all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be food in my house, and try me now in this, says the LORD of hosts, if I will not open for you the windows of heaven, and pour out for you a blessing, that there will not be room enough to receive it. 11 And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; nor shall your vine cast its fruit before its time in the field, says the LORD of hosts.
• Zech 5:4 : 4 I will bring it forth, says the LORD of hosts, and it shall enter into the house of the thief, and into the house of him who swears falsely by my name: and it shall remain in the midst of his house, and shall consume it, with its timber and its stones.
• Zech 8:10 : 10 For before these days there was no wage for man, nor any wage for beast; neither was there any peace for him who went out or came in because of the affliction: for I set all men, everyone against his neighbor.
• Mal 2:2 : 2 If you will not hear, and if you will not take it to heart, to give glory to my name, says the LORD of hosts, I will even send a curse upon you, and I will curse your blessings; yes, I have cursed them already because you do not take it to heart.
• Joel 1:10-13 : 10 The field is wasted, the land mourns; for the grain is wasted: the new wine is dried up, the oil languishes. 11 Be ashamed, you farmers; howl, you vinedressers, for the wheat and the barley; because the harvest of the field has perished. 12 The vine is dried up, and the fig tree languishes; the pomegranate tree, the palm tree also, and the apple tree, all the trees of the field, are withered: because joy has withered away from the sons of men. 13 Gird yourselves, and lament, you priests: howl, you ministers of the altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth, you ministers of my God: for the grain offering and the drink offering are withheld from the house of your God.
• Amos 4:6-9 : 6 And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and lack of bread in all your places: yet you have not returned to me, says the LORD. 7 And also I have withheld the rain from you, when there were still three months to the harvest: and I caused it to rain upon one city, and caused it not to rain upon another city: one piece was rained upon, and the piece where it did not rain withered. 8 So two or three cities wandered to one city to drink water, but they were not satisfied: yet you have not returned to me, says the LORD. 9 I have struck you with blight and mildew: when your gardens, your vineyards, your fig trees, and your olive trees increased, the locust devoured them: yet you have not returned to me, says the LORD.
• Mic 6:14-15 : 14 You shall eat, but not be satisfied; hunger shall be in your midst; you shall take hold, but shall not deliver; and what you deliver I will give up to the sword. 15 You shall sow, but not reap; you shall tread the olives, but not anoint yourselves with oil; and crush grapes, but not drink the wine.
• 2 Sam 21:1 : 1 In the days of David, there was a famine for three years, year after year, and David sought the LORD. And the LORD answered, It is because of Saul and his bloody house, because he killed the Gibeonites.
• 1 Kgs 17:12 : 12 And she said, As the LORD your God lives, I do not have a cake, but only a handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a jar: and behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and prepare it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die.
• Job 20:22 : 22 In the fullness of his sufficiency he shall be in distress; every hand of the wicked shall come upon him.
• Job 20:28 : 28 The increase of his house shall depart, and his goods shall flow away in the day of God's wrath.
• Ps 107:34 : 34 A fruitful land into barrenness, for the wickedness of those who dwell therein.
• Isa 5:10 : 10 Indeed, ten acres of vineyard shall yield one bath, and the seed of a homer shall yield an ephah.
• Jer 14:4 : 4 Because the ground is cracked, for there was no rain on the earth, the farmers were ashamed, they covered their heads.
• Jer 44:18 : 18 But since we stopped burning incense to the queen of heaven, and pouring out drink offerings to her, we have lacked all things, and have been consumed by the sword and by the famine.
• Ezek 4:16-17 : 16 Moreover he said to me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem, and they shall eat bread by weight, and with care; and they shall drink water by measure, and with astonishment: 17 That they may lack bread and water, and be dismayed one with another, and waste away for their iniquity.
• Lev 26:20 : 20 And your strength shall be spent in vain: for your land shall not yield its increase, neither shall the trees of the land yield their fruits.
• Lev 26:26 : 26 And when I have broken the staff of your bread, ten women shall bake your bread in one oven, and they shall deliver you your bread again by weight: and you shall eat, and not be satisfied.