Ecclesiastes 5:11
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?In other versions
When goods increase, they are increased that eat them; and what advantage is there to the owner thereof, save the beholding `of them' with his eyes?
ASV
The sleep of a working man is sweet, if he has little food or much; but to him who is full, sleep will not come.
BBE
When goods increase, they are increased that eat them; and what profit is there to the owner thereof, except the beholding [of them] with his eyes?
DBY
When goods increase, those who eat them are increased; and what advantage is there to its owner, except to feast on them with his eyes?
WEB
In the multiplying of good have its consumers been multiplied, and what benefit `is' to its possessor except the sight of his eyes?
YLT
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?
ENG
The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eateth little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.
WBT
When good things increase, so do those who consume them; what then is the profit to the owner, except to behold them with his eyes?
BSB
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.