New American Standard Bible 2020
Ecclesiastes 5:11-15
111When good things increase, those who consume them increase. So what is the advantage to their owners except to 2look at them? 12The sleep of the laborer is 3sweet, whether he eats little or much; but the 4full stomach of the rich person does not allow him to sleep.
13There is a sickening evil which I have seen under the sun: 5wealth being 6hoarded by its owner to his detriment. 14When that wealth was lost through bad business and he had fathered a son, then there was nothing 7to support him. 158As he came naked from his mother’s womb, so he will return as he came. He will 9take nothing from the fruit of his labor that he can carry in his hand.
Notes
- 1. Ecclesiastes 5:11 Eccl 2:9 ↩
- 2. Ecclesiastes 5:11 Lit see with their eyes ↩
- 3. Ecclesiastes 5:12 Prov 3:24 ↩
- 4. Ecclesiastes 5:12 Lit satiety ↩
- 5. Ecclesiastes 5:13 Eccl 6:2 ↩
- 6. Ecclesiastes 5:13 Lit guarded ↩
- 7. Ecclesiastes 5:14 Lit in his hand ↩
- 8. Ecclesiastes 5:15 Job 1:21 ↩
- 9. Ecclesiastes 5:15 Ps 49:17; 1 Tim 6:7 ↩
Commentaries on Ecclesiastes 5
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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