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?
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4 additional translationsWhen 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?
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?
In the multiplying of good have its consumers been multiplied, and what benefit is to its possessor except the sight of his eyes?
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?
About this book
Old Testament▾
About this book
Old TestamentEcclesiastes — Qohelet the Preacher — ''vanity of vanities, all is vanity.'' The book's relentless examination of life under the sun, resolving not in despair but in ''fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.''
- Author
- Traditional: Solomon (''son of David, king in Jerusalem''). Critical: a later Qohelet figure writing in Solomonic persona. §7.9 surfaces; Pastor Marc's drawer carries the position.
- Date
- Solomonic reading: c. 940 BC. Critical reading: Persian or early Hellenistic period (5th–3rd century BC).