Ecclesiastes 5:11

King James Version (KJV)

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 context

9 Moreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king himself is served by the field.

10 He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity.

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?

12 The 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.

13 There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt.

KJV King James Version: 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?
WEB World English Bible: 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?
BSB Berean Standard Bible: 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?
ASV American Standard Version: 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?
YLT Young's Literal Translation: In the multiplying of good have its consumers been multiplied, and what benefit [is] to its possessor except the sight of his eyes?
DBY Darby Translation: 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?
WBS Webster Bible: When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: and what good is there to the owners of them, saving the beholding of them with their eyes?