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
As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not; so he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall …
For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the …
And Joshua said, Why hast thou troubled us? the Lord shall trouble thee this day. And all Israel stoned him …
When I saw among the spoils a goodly Babylonish garment, and two hundred shekels of silver, and a wedge of …
Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and …
Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this is also vanity and vexation of …
Turn away mine eyes from beholding vanity; and quicken thou me in thy way.
Incline my heart unto thy testimonies, and not to covetousness.
Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as …
Behold, is it not of the Lord of hosts that the people shall labour in the very fire, and the …