Ecclesiastes 5:11

When goods increase, they are increased that eate them: and what good is there to the owners thereof, sauing the beholding of them with their eyes?
- King James Version (1611) - View 1611 Bible Scan

When good things increase, those who consume them increase. So what is the advantage to their owners except to look on?
- New American Standard Version (1995)

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?
- American Standard Version (1901)

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

When good things increase, so do those who consume them; what then is the profit to the owner, except to behold them with his eyes?
- Berean Standard Bible Bible

When goods increase, they are increased that eat them; and what profit is there to the owner thereof, except the beholding [of them] with his eyes?
- Darby Bible

Sleep is sweet to a labouring man, whether he eat lttle or much: but the fulness of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.
- Douay-Rheims Bible

When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: and what advantage is there to the owner thereof, saving the beholding of them with his eyes?
- English Revised Version

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?
- World English Bible

Wesley's Notes for Ecclesiastes 5:11

5:9 Profit - The fruits of the earth. For all - Necessary and beneficial to all men. The wise man, after some interruption, returns to his former subject, the vanity of riches, one evidence whereof he mentions in this verse, that the poor labourer enjoys the fruits of the earth as well as the greatest monarch. Is served - Is supported by the fruits of the field.

5:13 To their hurt - Because they frequently are the occasions both of their present and eternal destruction.