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Ecclesiastes 5:11 KJV
Ecclesiastes · chapter 5 · verse 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?Ecclesiastes 5:11 · King James Version
Ecclesiastes 5:11 in context
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.
13There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- increasedrâbabproperly, to cast togetherH7231 →
- beholdingraʼăvâhsightH7207 →
- beholdingrᵉʼîythsightH7212 →
- increaserâbâhto increaseH7235 →
- ownersbaʻala masterH1167 →
- savingʼimused very widely as demonstrative, lo!H518 →
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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