The Bible Verse By Verse Continued...

[crossnote]

When goods increase, they increase who eat them, and what advantage has their owner but to see them with his eyes?
(Ecc 5:11) NASB

 

[Deade]

Ecclesiastes 5:12 (NASB)

The sleep of the working man is pleasant, whether he eats little or much; but the full stomach of the rich man does not allow him to sleep.

 

[Deade]

Ecclesiastes 5:13 (NASB)

There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun: riches being hoarded by their owner to his hurt.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Ecclesiastes 5:14 (NASB)

When those riches were lost through a bad investment and he had fathered a son,
then there was nothing to support him.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Ecclesiastes 5:15 (NASB)

As he had come naked from his mother’s womb, so will he return as he came.
He will take nothing from the fruit of his labor that he can carry in his hand.

 

[Deade]

Ecclesiastes 5:16 (NASB)

This also is a grievous evil—exactly as a man is born, thus will he die. So what is the advantage to him who toils for the wind?

 

[Deade]

Ecclesiastes 5:17 (NASB)

Throughout his life he also eats in darkness with great vexation, sickness and anger.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Ecclesiastes 5:18 (NASB)

Here is what I have seen to be good and fitting: to eat, to drink and enjoy oneself in all one’s labor in which he toils under the sun during the few years of his life which God has given him; for this is his reward.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Ecclesiastes 5:19 (NASB)

Furthermore, as for every man to whom God has given riches and wealth, He has also empowered him to eat from them and to receive his reward and rejoice in his labor; this is the gift of God.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Ecclesiastes 5:20 (NASB)

For he will not often consider the years of his life,
because God keeps him occupied with the gladness of his heart.

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

Ecclesiastes 6:1 (JPS Tanakh 1917)
There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is heavy upon men:

 

[GracethroughfaithinChrist]

Ecclesiastes 6:2 (NKJV)
A man to whom God has given riches and wealth and honor, so that he lacks nothing for himself of all he desires; yet God does not give him power to eat of it, but a foreigner consumes it. This is vanity, and it is an evil affliction.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Ecclesiastes 6:3 (CSB)

A man may father a hundred children and live many years. No matter how long he lives, if he is not satisfied by good things and does not even have a proper burial, I say that a stillborn child is better off than he.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Ecclesiastes 6:4 (CSB)

For he comes in futility and he goes in darkness, and his name is shrouded in darkness.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Ecclesiastes 6:5 (CSB)

Though a stillborn child does not see the sun and is not conscious, it has more rest than he.

 

[Lucy-Pevensie]

Ecclesiastes 6:6 (CSB)

And if a person lives a thousand years twice, but does not experience happiness,
do not both go to the same place?

 

[Lafftur]

Ecclesiastes 6:7 (NKJV)
7 All the labor of man is for his mouth,
And yet the soul is not satisfied.

 

[Lafftur]

Ecclesiastes 6:8 (NKJV)
8 For what more has the wise man than the fool?
What does the poor man have,
Who knows how to walk before the living?

 

[Deade]

Ecclesiastes 6:9 (ASV)

Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this also is vanity and a striving after wind.

 

[Deade]

Ecclesiastes 6:10 (ASV)

Whatsoever hath been, the name thereof was given long ago; and it is known what man is; neither can he contend with him that is mightier than he.