Ecclesiastes 5:11

World English Bible (WEB)

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?

In context

9 Moreover the profit of the earth is for all. The king profits from the field.

10 He who loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver, nor he who loves abundance, with increase. This also is vanity.

11 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?

12 The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eats little or much; but the abundance of the rich will not allow him to sleep.

13 There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun: wealth kept by its owner to his harm.

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?
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?
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?