Ecclesiastes 5:13
World English Bible (WEB)
There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun: wealth kept by its owner to his harm.
In context
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.
14 Those riches perish by misfortune, and if he has fathered a son, there is nothing in his hand.
15 As he came out of his mother’s womb, naked shall he go again as he came, and shall take nothing for his labor, which he may carry away in his hand.
Ecclesiastes 5:13 in every translation
- WEB World English Bible
- There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun: wealth kept by its owner to his harm.
- KJV King James Version
- There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt.
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- There is a grievous evil I have seen under the sun: wealth hoarded to the harm of its owner,
- ASV American Standard Version
- There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept by the owner thereof to his hurt:
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- There is a painful evil I have seen under the sun: wealth kept for its possessor, for his evil.
- DBY Darby Translation
- There is a grievous evil that I have seen under the sun: riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt;
- WBS Webster Bible
- There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun, namely , riches kept for the owners of them to their hurt.