New American Standard Bible 2020
Ecclesiastes 5:13-17
13There is a sickening evil which I have seen under the sun: 1wealth being 2hoarded by its owner to his detriment. 14When that wealth was lost through bad business and he had fathered a son, then there was nothing 3to support him. 154As he came naked from his mother’s womb, so he will return as he came. He will 5take nothing from the fruit of his labor that he can carry in his hand. 16This also is a sickening evil: exactly as a person 6is born, so will he 7die. 8What then is the advantage for him who 9labors for the wind? 17All his life 10he also eats in darkness with 11great irritation, sickness, and anger.
Notes
- 1. Ecclesiastes 5:13 Eccl 6:2 ↩
- 2. Ecclesiastes 5:13 Lit guarded ↩
- 3. Ecclesiastes 5:14 Lit in his hand ↩
- 4. Ecclesiastes 5:15 Job 1:21 ↩
- 5. Ecclesiastes 5:15 Ps 49:17; 1 Tim 6:7 ↩
- 6. Ecclesiastes 5:16 Lit comes ↩
- 7. Ecclesiastes 5:16 Lit go ↩
- 8. Ecclesiastes 5:16 Eccl 1:3; 2:11; 3:9 ↩
- 9. Ecclesiastes 5:16 Prov 11:29 ↩
- 10. Ecclesiastes 5:17 Ps 127:2 ↩
- 11. Ecclesiastes 5:17 Eccl 2:23 ↩
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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