King James Version KJV
New International Version NIV
10 He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity.
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Whoever loves money never has enough; whoever loves wealth is never satisfied with their income. This too is meaningless.
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?
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As goods increase, so do those who consume them. And what benefit are they to the owners except to feast their eyes on them?
12 The sleep of a labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.
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The sleep of a laborer is sweet, whether they eat little or much, but as for the rich, their abundance permits them no sleep.
13 There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt.
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I have seen a grievous evil under the sun: wealth hoarded to the harm of its owners,
14 But those riches perish by evil travail: and he begetteth a son, and there is nothing in his hand.
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or wealth lost through some misfortune, so that when they have children there is nothing left for them to inherit.
15 As he came forth of his mother's womb, naked shall he return to go as he came, and shall take nothing of his labour, which he may carry away in his hand.
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Everyone comes naked from their mother’s womb, and as everyone comes, so they depart. They take nothing from their toil that they can carry in their hands.
16 And this also is a sore evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go: and what profit hath he that hath laboured for the wind?
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This too is a grievous evil: As everyone comes, so they depart, and what do they gain, since they toil for the wind?
17 All his days also he eateth in darkness, and he hath much sorrow and wrath with his sickness.
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All their days they eat in darkness, with great frustration, affliction and anger.
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