Ecclesiastes 5:14
World English Bible (WEB)
Those riches perish by misfortune, and if he has fathered a son, there is nothing in his hand.
In context
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.
16 This also is a grievous evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go. And what profit does he have who labors for the wind?
Ecclesiastes 5:14 in every translation
- WEB World English Bible
- Those riches perish by misfortune, and if he has fathered a son, there is nothing in his hand.
- KJV King James Version
- But those riches perish by evil travail: and he begetteth a son, and there is nothing in his hand.
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- or wealth lost in a failed venture, so when that man has a son there is nothing to pass on.
- ASV American Standard Version
- and those riches perish by evil adventure; and if he hath begotten a son, there is nothing in his hand.
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- And that wealth hath been lost in an evil business, and he hath begotten a son and there is nothing in his hand!
- DBY Darby Translation
- or those riches perish by some evil circumstance, and if he have begotten a son, there is nothing in his hand.
- WBS Webster Bible
- But those riches perish by evil labor: and he begetteth a son, and there is nothing in his hand.