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Ecclesiastes 5:10
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The Vanity of Gain and Honor

8 If you asee the oppression of the poor, and the violent1 perversion of justice and righteousness in a province, do not marvel at the matter; for bhigh official watches over high official, and higher officials are over them.  
9 Moreover the profit of the land is for all; even the king is served from the field.
10 He who loves silver will not be satisfied with silver;
Nor he who loves abundance, with increase.
This also is vanity.
11 When goods increase,
They increase who eat them;
So what profit have the owners
Except to see them with their eyes?
12 The sleep of a laboring man is sweet,
Whether he eats little or much;
But the abundance of the rich will not permit him to sleep.
13 aThere is a severe evil which I have seen under the sun:
Riches kept for their owner to his hurt. 
14 But those riches perish through1 misfortune;
When he begets a son, there is nothing in his hand. 
15 aAs he came from his mother’s womb, naked shall he return,
To go as he came;
And he shall take nothing from his labor
Which he may carry away in his hand. 
16 And this also is a severe evil—
Just exactly as he came, so shall he go.
And awhat profit has he bwho has labored for the wind? 
17 All his days ahe also eats in darkness,
And he has much sorrow and sickness and anger.  
18 Here is what I have seen: aIt is good and fitting for one to eat and drink, and to enjoy the good of all his labor in which he toils under the sun all the days of his life which God gives him; bfor it is his heritage.  
19 As for aevery man to whom God has given riches and wealth, and given him power to eat of it, to receive his1 heritage and rejoice in his labor—this is the bgift of God.  
Verse Comparison: Ecclesiastes 5:10

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American Standard Version
He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance, with increase: this also is vanity.

Amplified® Bible
He who loves silver will not be satisfied with silver, nor he who loves abundance with gain. This also is vanity (emptiness, falsity, and futility)!

Contemporary English Version
If you love money and wealth, you will never be satisfied with what you have. This doesn't make sense either.

Darby English Version
He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver, nor he that loveth abundance with increase. This also is vanity.

Good News Bible
If you love money, you will never be satisfied; if you long to be rich, you will never get all you want. It is useless.

King James Version
He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity.

New American Standard Bible
He who loves money will not be satisfied with money, nor he who loves abundance {with its} income. This too is vanity.

New International Version
Whoever loves money never has money enough;
whoever loves wealth is never satisfied with his income.
This too is meaningless.

New King James Version
He who loves silver will not be satisfied with silver;
Nor he who loves abundance, with increase.
This also is vanity.

N.A.S.B. in E-Prime
He who loves money will not find satisfaction with money, nor he who loves abundance with its income. This too seems vain.

Revised Standard Version
He who loves money will not be satisfied with money; nor he who loves wealth, with gain: this also is vanity.

Young's Literal Translation
Whoso is loving silver is not satisfied `with' silver, nor he who is in love with stores `with' increase. Even this `is' vanity.


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