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!

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?

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 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?

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?

Has not the Lord of Heaven’s Armies promised that the wealth of nations will turn to ashes? They work so hard, but all in vain!

Among the plunder I saw a beautiful robe from Babylon, 200 silver coins, and a bar of gold weighing more than a pound. I wanted them so much that I took them. They are hidden in the ground beneath my tent, with the silver buried deeper than the rest.”So Joshua sent some men to make a search. They ran to the tent and found the stolen goods hidden there, just as Achan had said, with the silver buried beneath the rest.They took the things from the tent and brought them to Joshua and all the Israelites. Then they laid them on the ground in the presence of the Lord.Then Joshua and all the Israelites took Achan, the silver, the robe, the bar of gold, his sons, daughters, cattle, donkeys, sheep, goats, tent, and everything he had, and they brought them to the valley of Achor.Then Joshua said to Achan,“ Why have you brought trouble on us? The Lord will now bring trouble on you.” And all the Israelites stoned Achan and his family and burned their bodies.

Lot, who was traveling with Abram, had also become very wealthy with flocks of sheep and goats, herds of cattle, and many tents.But the land could not support both Abram and Lot with all their flocks and herds living so close together.So disputes broke out between the herdsmen of Abram and Lot.( At that time Canaanites and Perizzites were also living in the land.)

Then Pharaoh gave Abram many gifts because of her— sheep, goats, cattle, male and female donkeys, male and female servants, and camels.

I asked for nothing, even though I regularly fed 150 Jewish officials at my table, besides all the visitors from other lands!The provisions I paid for each day included one ox, six choice sheep or goats, and a large number of poultry. And every ten days we needed a large supply of all kinds of wine. Yet I refused to claim the governor’s food allowance because the people already carried a heavy burden.

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

Enjoy what you have rather than desiring what you don’t have. Just dreaming about nice things is meaningless— like chasing the wind.

Give me an eagerness for your laws rather than a love for money!Turn my eyes from worthless things, and give me life through your word.

Then King Solomon conscripted a labor force of 30,000 men from all Israel.He sent them to Lebanon in shifts, 10,000 every month, so that each man would be one month in Lebanon and two months at home. Adoniram was in charge of this labor force.Solomon also had 70,000 common laborers, 80,000 quarry workers in the hill country,and 3,600 foremen to supervise the work.

In the blink of an eye wealth disappears, for it will sprout wings and fly away like an eagle.

Young people, it’s wonderful to be young! Enjoy every minute of it. Do everything you want to do; take it all in. But remember that you must give an account to God for everything you do.

The daily food requirements for Solomon’s palace were 150 bushels of choice flour and 300 bushels of meal;also 10 oxen from the fattening pens, 20 pasture fed cattle, 100 sheep or goats, as well as deer, gazelles, roe deer, and choice poultry.

Like a partridge that hatches eggs she has not laid, so are those who get their wealth by unjust means. At midlife they will lose their riches; in the end, they will become poor old fools.