Parallel Verses
- New Living Translation - 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!
- 新标点和合本 - 货物增添，吃的人也增添，物主得什么益处呢？不过眼看而已！
- 和合本2010（上帝版-简体） - 货物增添，吃的人也增添，物主得什么益处呢？不过眼看而已！
- 和合本2010（神版-简体） - 货物增添，吃的人也增添，物主得什么益处呢？不过眼看而已！
- 当代译本 - 财富增加，消费的人也增加，这对财富的主人有什么益处呢？只是过眼云烟罢了！
- 圣经新译本 - 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？
- 中文标准译本 - 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？
- 现代标点和合本 - 货物增添，吃的人也增添，物主得什么益处呢？不过眼看而已。
- 和合本（拼音版） - 货物增添，吃的人也增添，物主得什么益处呢？不过眼看而已。
- New International Version - As goods increase, so do those who consume them. And what benefit are they to the owners except to feast their eyes on them?
- New International Reader's Version - 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.
- English Standard Version - When goods increase, they increase who eat them, and what advantage has their owner but to see them with his eyes?
- The Message - The more loot you get, the more looters show up. And what fun is that—to be robbed in broad daylight?
- Christian Standard Bible - 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?
- New American Standard Bible - When good things increase, those who consume them increase. So what is the advantage to their owners except to look at them?
- New King James Version - When goods increase, They increase who eat them; So what profit have the owners Except to see them with their eyes?
- Amplified Bible - When good things increase, those who consume them increase. So what advantage is there to their owners except to see them with their eyes?
- American Standard Version - 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?
- King James Version - 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?
- New English Translation - 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?
- World English Bible - 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?
- 新標點和合本 - 貨物增添，吃的人也增添，物主得甚麼益處呢？不過眼看而已！
- 和合本2010（上帝版-繁體） - 貨物增添，吃的人也增添，物主得甚麼益處呢？不過眼看而已！
- 和合本2010（神版-繁體） - 貨物增添，吃的人也增添，物主得甚麼益處呢？不過眼看而已！
- 當代譯本 - 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！
- 聖經新譯本 - 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？
- 呂振中譯本 - 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。
- 中文標準譯本 - 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？
- 現代標點和合本 - 貨物增添，吃的人也增添，物主得什麼益處呢？不過眼看而已。
- 文理和合譯本 - 貨財增、食之者亦增、其主有何益哉、惟目睹之而已、
- 文理委辦譯本 - 財充則用繁、有財何裨。
- 施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經 - 勞者無論食多食寡、寢必沈酣、富者豐裕、反不得寢、
- Nueva Versión Internacional - Donde abundan los bienes, sobra quien se los gaste; ¿y qué saca de esto su dueño, aparte de contemplarlos?
- 현대인의 성경 - 재산이 늘면 그만큼 소비도 많아진다. 그 소유주의 눈을 즐겁게 하는 것 외에 무슨 유익이 있겠느냐?
- Новый Русский Перевод - Сон работника – сладок, много ли он съел или мало. Но объевшийся богач все ворочается в своей кровати.
- Восточный перевод - Сон работника сладок, много ли он съел или мало. Но объевшийся богач всё ворочается в своей кровати.
- Восточный перевод, версия с «Аллахом» - Сон работника сладок, много ли он съел или мало. Но объевшийся богач всё ворочается в своей кровати.
- Восточный перевод, версия для Таджикистана - Сон работника сладок, много ли он съел или мало. Но объевшийся богач всё ворочается в своей кровати.
- La Bible du Semeur 2015 - Doux est le sommeil du travailleur, qu’il ait peu ou beaucoup à manger, mais l’abondance du riche l’empêche de dormir.
- リビングバイブル - 収入が多くなれば、それに応じて支出も多くなります。金銭にどんな利益があるというのでしょう。彼らは金銭が指の間からこぼれ落ちていくのを眺めていることしかできないのです。
- Nova Versão Internacional - Quando aumentam os bens, também aumentam os que os consomem. E que benefício trazem os bens a quem os possui, senão dar um pouco de alegria aos seus olhos?
- Hoffnung für alle - Wer hart arbeitet, der kann gut schlafen – egal ob er viel oder wenig zu essen hat. Der Reiche dagegen findet vor lauter Sorge um sein Vermögen keinen Schlaf.
- Kinh Thánh Hiện Đại - Càng có nhiều tiền, càng có nhiều người tiêu xài. Vậy có của cải ích lợi gì—ngoại trừ việc ngắm nhìn nó.
- พระคริสตธรรมคัมภีร์ไทย ฉบับอมตธรรมร่วมสมัย - เมื่อมีข้าวของเพิ่มขึ้น ก็เพิ่มคนบริโภค คนที่เป็นเจ้าของจะได้ประโยชน์อะไร นอกจากชมเล่นเป็นขวัญตา?
- พระคัมภีร์ ฉบับแปลใหม่ - เมื่อสมบัติทวีขึ้น คนที่จะร่วมใช้สอยด้วยก็ทวีขึ้นตามกัน เจ้าของสมบัติได้แต่มองดูความมั่งมีที่เพิ่มขึ้นเท่านั้น
Cross Reference
- 1 Kings 4:22 - The daily food requirements for Solomon’s palace were 150 bushels of choice flour and 300 bushels of meal ;
- 1 Kings 4:23 - 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.
- Jeremiah 17:11 - 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.
- Ecclesiastes 6:9 - Enjoy what you have rather than desiring what you don’t have. Just dreaming about nice things is meaningless—like chasing the wind.
- Joshua 7:21 - 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.”
- Joshua 7:22 - 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.
- Joshua 7:23 - 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.
- Joshua 7:24 - 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.
- Joshua 7:25 - 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.
- Genesis 12:16 - Then Pharaoh gave Abram many gifts because of her—sheep, goats, cattle, male and female donkeys, male and female servants, and camels.
- Proverbs 23:5 - In the blink of an eye wealth disappears, for it will sprout wings and fly away like an eagle.
- Ecclesiastes 11:9 - 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.
- Nehemiah 5:17 - I asked for nothing, even though I regularly fed 150 Jewish officials at my table, besides all the visitors from other lands!
- Nehemiah 5:18 - 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.
- Psalms 119:36 - Give me an eagerness for your laws rather than a love for money!
- Psalms 119:37 - Turn my eyes from worthless things, and give me life through your word.
- Genesis 13:5 - Lot, who was traveling with Abram, had also become very wealthy with flocks of sheep and goats, herds of cattle, and many tents.
- Genesis 13:6 - But the land could not support both Abram and Lot with all their flocks and herds living so close together.
- Genesis 13:7 - So disputes broke out between the herdsmen of Abram and Lot. (At that time Canaanites and Perizzites were also living in the land.)
- 1 Kings 5:13 - Then King Solomon conscripted a labor force of 30,000 men from all Israel.
- 1 Kings 5:14 - 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.
- 1 Kings 5:15 - Solomon also had 70,000 common laborers, 80,000 quarry workers in the hill country,
- 1 Kings 5:16 - and 3,600 foremen to supervise the work.
- Genesis 13:2 - (Abram was very rich in livestock, silver, and gold.)
- Habakkuk 2:13 - 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!