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Ecclesiastes 5:12 KJV
Ecclesiastes · chapter 5 · verse 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.Ecclesiastes 5:12 · King James Version
Ecclesiastes 5:12 in context
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.
14But those riches perish by evil travail: and he begetteth a son, and there is nothing in his hand.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- abundancesâbâʻcopiousnessH7647 →
- littlemᵉʻaṭa little or fewH4592 →
- sufferyânachto depositH3240 →
- sleepshênâhsleepH8142 →
- sweetmâthôwqsweetH4966 →
- muchrâbâhto increaseH7235 →
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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