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Ecclesiastes 5:10 KJV
Ecclesiastes · chapter 5 · verse 10
He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity.Ecclesiastes 5:10 · King James Version
Ecclesiastes 5:10 in context
8If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter: for he that is higher than the highest regardeth; and there be higher than they.
9Moreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king himself is served by the field.
10He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity.
11When 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?
12The 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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- satisfiedsâbaʻto sateH7646 →
- abundancehâmôwna noise, tumult, crowdH1995 →
- increasetᵉbûwʼâhincomeH8393 →
- lovethʼâhabto have affection forH157 →
- silverkeçephsilverH3701 →
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Solomon had shown the vanity of pleasure, gaiety, and fine works, of honour, power, and royal dignity; and there is many a covetous worldling that will agree with him, and speak as slightly as he does of these things; but money, he thinks, is a substantial thing, and if he can but have enough of that he is happy.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 9-17