Ecclesiastes 5:11
When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: and what good is there to the owners thereof, saving the beholding of them with their eyes?
Context
This verse from Ecclesiastes Chapter 5 connects to 10 cross-references. Practical wisdom about religious devotion: guard your steps when entering the house of God, let your words be few, and do not delay fulfilling vows. Qohelet observes that wealth hoarded or lost in bad ventures does not satisfy, and that …
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?
In the multiplying of good have its consumers been multiplied, and what benefit <FI>is<Fi> to its possessor except the sight of his eyes?
When goods are increased, the number of those who take of them is increased; and what profit has the owner but to see them?
Cross References
And he entreated Abram well for her sake: and he had sheep, and oxen, and he asses, and menservants, and …
And Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold.
And Lot also, which went with Abram, had flocks, and herds, and tents.
And there was a strife between the herdmen of Abram’s cattle and the herdmen of Lot’s cattle: and the Canaanite …
When I saw among the spoils a goodly Babylonish garment, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of …
And Joshua said, Why hast thou troubled us? the Lord shall trouble thee this day. And all Israel stoned him …
And Solomon’s provision for one day was thirty measures of fine flour, and threescore measures of meal,
Ten fat oxen, and twenty oxen out of the pastures, and an hundred sheep, beside harts, and roebucks, and fallowdeer, …
And king Solomon raised a levy out of all Israel; and the levy was thirty thousand men.
Beside the chief of Solomon’s officers which were over the work, three thousand and three hundred, which ruled over the …