When someone’s prosperity increases, those who consume it also increase; so what does its owner gain, except that he gets to see it with his eyes?

货物增添，吃的人也增添，物主得什么益处呢？不过眼看而已！

货物增添，吃的人也增添，物主得什么益处呢？不过眼看而已！

货物增添，吃的人也增添，物主得什么益处呢？不过眼看而已！

财富增加，消费的人也增加，这对财富的主人有什么益处呢？只是过眼烟云罢了！

财物增加，吃用的人也增加，物主除了眼看以外，还有什么益处呢？

财物增加，吃用的人也增加，而主人除了眼看以外，还有什么益处呢？

貨物增添，吃的人也增添，物主得甚麼益處呢？不過眼看而已！

貨物增添，吃的人也增添，物主得甚麼益處呢？不過眼看而已！

貨物增添，吃的人也增添，物主得甚麼益處呢？不過眼看而已！

財富增加，消費的人也增加，這對財富的主人有什麼益處呢？只是過眼雲煙罷了！

財物增加，吃用的人也增加，物主除了眼看以外，還有甚麼益處呢？

財物加多，喫的人也加多；物主得了甚麼益處呢？不過是眼看着罷了。

財物增加，吃用的人也增加，而主人除了眼看以外，還有什麼益處呢？

貨財增、食之者亦增、其主有何益哉、惟目睹之而已、

財充則用繁、有財何裨。

勞者無論食多食寡、寢必沈酣、富者豐裕、反不得寢、

As goods increase, so do those who consume them. And what benefit are they to the owners except to feast their eyes on them?

As more and more goods are made, more and more people use them up. So how can those goods benefit their owners? All they can do is look at them with desire.

When goods increase, they increase who eat them, and what advantage has their owner but to see them with his eyes?

The more you have, the more people come to help you spend it. So what good is wealth— except perhaps to watch it slip through your fingers!

When good things increase, the ones who consume them multiply; what, then, is the profit to the owner, except to gaze at them with his eyes?

When good things increase, those who consume them increase. So what is the advantage to their owners except to look at them?

When goods increase, They increase who eat them; So what profit have the owners Except to see them with their eyes?

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?

When good things increase, the ones who consume them multiply; what, then, is the profit to the owner, except to gaze at them with his eyes?

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?

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?

Be sure of this! The LORD who commands armies has decreed: The nations’ efforts will go up in smoke; their exhausting work will be for nothing.

I saw among the goods we seized a nice robe from Babylon, two hundred silver pieces, and a bar of gold weighing fifty shekels. I wanted them, so I took them. They are hidden in the ground right in the middle of my tent with the silver underneath.”Joshua sent messengers who ran to the tent. The things were hidden right in his tent, with the silver underneath.They took it all from the middle of the tent, brought it to Joshua and all the Israelites, and placed it before the LORD.Then Joshua and all Israel took Achan, son of Zerah, along with the silver, the robe, the bar of gold, his sons, daughters, ox, donkey, sheep, tent, and all that belonged to him and brought them up to the Valley of Disaster.Joshua said,“ Why have you brought disaster on us? The LORD will bring disaster on you today!” All Israel stoned him to death.( They also stoned and burned the others.)

Now Lot, who was traveling with Abram, also had flocks, herds, and tents.But the land could not support them while they were living side by side. Because their possessions were so great, they were not able to live alongside one another.So there were quarrels between Abram’s herdsmen and Lot’s herdsmen.( Now the Canaanites and the Perizzites were living in the land at that time.)

and he did treat Abram well on account of her. Abram received sheep and cattle, male donkeys, male servants, female servants, female donkeys, and camels.

There were 150 Jews and officials who dined with me routinely, in addition to those who came to us from the nations all around us.Every day one ox, six select sheep, and some birds were prepared for me, and every ten days all kinds of wine in abundance. Despite all this I did not require the food allotted to the governor, for the work was demanding on this people.

( Now Abram was very wealthy in livestock, silver, and gold.)

It is better to be content with what the eyes can see than for one’s heart always to crave more. This continual longing is futile– like chasing the wind.

Give me a desire for your rules, rather than for wealth gained unjustly.Turn my eyes away from what is worthless! Revive me with your word!

King Solomon conscripted work crews from throughout Israel, 30,000 men in all.He sent them to Lebanon in shifts of 10,000 men per month. They worked in Lebanon for one month, and then spent two months at home. Adoniram was supervisor of the work crews.Solomon also had 70,000 common laborers and 80,000 stonecutters in the hills,besides 3,300 officials who supervised the workers.

When you gaze upon riches, they are gone, for they surely make wings for themselves, and fly off into the sky like an eagle!

Rejoice, young man, while you are young, and let your heart cheer you in the days of your youth. Follow the impulses of your heart and the desires of your eyes, but know that God will judge your motives and actions.

Each day Solomon’s royal court consumed thirty cors of finely milled flour, sixty cors of cereal,ten calves fattened in the stall, twenty calves from the pasture, and a hundred sheep, not to mention rams, gazelles, deer, and well-fed birds.

The person who gathers wealth by unjust means is like the partridge that broods over eggs but does not hatch them. Before his life is half over he will lose his ill-gotten gains. At the end of his life it will be clear he was a fool.”