Ecc EcclesiastesPrediker, chapterhoofdstuk EcclesiastesHet boek Prediker, chapterhoofdstuk 5

Vertalingen

The more you earn, the more you have eating into your income. It only looks like you have more! 1Jn 2:16

Prediker 5:11 in verschillende vertalingen

Engels

KJV (66 books) 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?
ASV 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?
BSB 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?
DRA [5:10] Where there are great riches, there are also many to eat them. And what doth it profit the owner, but that he seeth the riches with his eyes?
GNV The sleepe of him that traueileth, is sweete, whether he eate litle or much: but the sacietie of the riche will not suffer him to sleepe.
JPS When goods increase, they are increased that eat them; and what advantage is there to the owner thereof, saving the beholding of them with his eyes?
LSV In the multiplying of good have its consumers been multiplied, and what benefit [is] to its possessor except the sight of his eyes?
NIV (US) As goods increase, so do those who consume them. And what benefit are they to the owners except to feast their eyes on them?
OJB [5:10] When hatovah (good things) increase, they are increased that consume them; and what kishron (useful result) is there to the ba'al (owner) thereof, except as an onlooker?
T4T The more money that we have, the more people want us to spend our money to buy things for them. So people who have a lot of money do not [RHQ] benefit from it; they see [MTY] it when they get it, but it soon ◄disappears/is completely spent►.
WEB (US) 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?

Nederlands

Canisius Waar rijkdom is, zijn vele klaplopers; De bezitter zelf heeft er geen genot van Dan wat lust van de ogen.