Parallel Bible results for "ecclesiastes 5:10-17"

Ecclesiastes 5:10-17

Douay-Rheims Catholic Bible RHE

10 (5-9) A covetous man shall not be satisfied with money: and he that loveth riches shall reap no fruit from them: so this also is vanity.

11 (5-10) Where there are great riches, there are also many to eat them. And what doth it profit the owner, but that he seeth the riches with his eyes?

12 (5-11) Sleep is sweet to a labouring man, whether he eat little or much: but the fulness of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.

13 (5-12) There is also another grievous evil, which I have seen under the sun: riches kept to the hurt of the owner.

14 (5-13) For they are lost with very great affliction: he hath begotten a son, who shall be in extremity of want.

15 (5-14) As he came forth naked from his mother’s womb, so shall he return, and shall take nothing away with him of his labour.

16 (5-15) A most deplorable evil: as he came, so shall he return. What then doth it profit him that he hath laboured for the wind?

17 (5-16) All the days of his life he eateth in darkness, and in many cares, and in misery, and sorrow.

New International Version NIV

10 Whoever loves money never has enough; whoever loves wealth is never satisfied with their income. This too is meaningless.

11 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 laborer is sweet, whether they eat little or much, but as for the rich, their abundance permits them no sleep.

13 I have seen a grievous evil under the sun: wealth hoarded to the harm of its owners,

14 or wealth lost through some misfortune, so that when they have children there is nothing left for them to inherit.

15 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 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 their days they eat in darkness, with great frustration, affliction and anger.