Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version Whoever loves money never has enough; whoever loves wealth is never satisfied with their income. This too is meaningless. New Living Translation Those who love money will never have enough. How meaningless to think that wealth brings true happiness! English Standard Version He who loves money will not be satisfied with money, nor he who loves wealth with his income; this also is vanity. Berean Standard Bible He who loves money is never satisfied by money, and he who loves wealth is never satisfied by income. This too is futile. King James Bible He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity. New King James Version He who loves silver will not be satisfied with silver; Nor he who loves abundance, with increase. This also is vanity. New American Standard Bible One who loves money will not be satisfied with money, nor one who loves abundance with its income. This too is futility. NASB 1995 He who loves money will not be satisfied with money, nor he who loves abundance with its income. This too is vanity. NASB 1977 He who loves money will not be satisfied with money, nor he who loves abundance with its income. This too is vanity. Legacy Standard Bible He who loves money will not be satisfied with money, nor he who loves abundance with its produce. This too is vanity. Amplified Bible He who loves money will not be satisfied with money, nor he who loves abundance with its gain. This too is vanity (emptiness). Christian Standard Bible The one who loves silver is never satisfied with silver, and whoever loves wealth is never satisfied with income. This too is futile. Holman Christian Standard Bible The one who loves money is never satisfied with money, and whoever loves wealth is never satisfied with income. This too is futile. American Standard Version He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance, with increase: this also is vanity. Aramaic Bible in Plain English He who loves silver will not be satisfied with silver and he who loves money will not keep it, and this also is futility Brenton Septuagint Translation He that loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver: and who has loved gain, in the abundance thereof? this is also vanity. Contemporary English Version If you love money and wealth, you will never be satisfied with what you have. This doesn't make a bit of sense. Douay-Rheims Bible A covetous man shall not be satisfied with money: and he that loveth riches shall reap no fruit from them: so this also is vanity. English Revised Version He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this also is vanity. GOD'S WORD® Translation Whoever loves money will never be satisfied with money. Whoever loves wealth will never be satisfied with more income. Even this is pointless. Good News Translation If you love money, you will never be satisfied; if you long to be rich, you will never get all you want. It is useless. International Standard Version Whoever loves money will never have enough money. Whoever loves luxury will not be content with abundance. This also is pointless. JPS Tanakh 1917 He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance, with increase; this also is vanity. Literal Standard Version Whoever is loving silver is not satisfied [with] silver, nor he who is in love with stores [with] increase. Even this [is] vanity. Majority Standard Bible He who loves money is never satisfied by money, and he who loves wealth is never satisfied by income. This too is futile. New American Bible The covetous are never satisfied with money, nor lovers of wealth with their gain; so this too is vanity. NET Bible The one who loves money will never be satisfied with money, he who loves wealth will never be satisfied with his income. This also is futile. New Revised Standard Version The lover of money will not be satisfied with money; nor the lover of wealth, with gain. This also is vanity. New Heart English Bible He who loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he who loves abundance, with increase: this also is vanity. Webster's Bible Translation He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity. World English Bible He who loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver, nor he who loves abundance, with increase. This also is vanity. Young's Literal Translation Whoso is loving silver is not satisfied with silver, nor he who is in love with stores with increase. Even this is vanity. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context The Futility of Wealth…9The produce of the earth is taken by all; the king himself profits from the fields. 10He who loves money is never satisfied by money, and he who loves wealth is never satisfied by income. This too is futile. 11When good things increase, so do those who consume them; what then is the profit to the owner, except to behold them with his eyes?… Cross References Ecclesiastes 1:8 All things are wearisome, more than one can describe; the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear content with hearing. Ecclesiastes 2:10 Anything my eyes desired, I did not deny myself. I refused my heart no pleasure. For my heart took delight in all my work, and this was the reward for all my labor. Ecclesiastes 2:11 Yet when I considered all the works that my hands had accomplished and what I had toiled to achieve, I found everything to be futile, a pursuit of the wind; there was nothing to be gained under the sun. Ecclesiastes 4:8 There is a man all alone, without even a son or brother. And though there is no end to his labor, his eyes are still not content with his wealth: "For whom do I toil and bereave my soul of enjoyment?" This too is futile--a miserable task. Ecclesiastes 5:9 The produce of the earth is taken by all; the king himself profits from the fields. Treasury of Scripture He that loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loves abundance with increase: this is also vanity. Ecclesiastes 4:8 There is one alone, and there is not a second; yea, he hath neither child nor brother: yet is there no end of all his labour; neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither saith he, For whom do I labour, and bereave my soul of good? This is also vanity, yea, it is a sore travail. Ecclesiastes 6:7 All the labour of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled. Psalm 52:1,7 To the chief Musician, Maschil, A Psalm of David, when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul, and said unto him, David is come to the house of Ahimelech. Why boastest thou thyself in mischief, O mighty man? the goodness of God endureth continually… this Ecclesiastes 1:17 And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit. Ecclesiastes 2:11,17,18,26 Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun… Ecclesiastes 3:19 For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity. Jump to Previous Abundance Enough Gain Income Increase Loves Loving Meaningless Money Profit Purpose Satisfied Silver Stores Vanity WealthJump to Next Abundance Enough Gain Income Increase Loves Loving Meaningless Money Profit Purpose Satisfied Silver Stores Vanity WealthEcclesiastes 5 1. vanities in divine service8. in murmuring against oppression 9. and in riches 18. Joy in riches is the gift of God. Verses 10-17. - The thought of the acts of injustice and oppression noticed above, all of which spring from the craving for money, leads the bard to dwell upon the evils that accompany this pursuit and possession of wealth, which is thus seen to give no real satisfaction. Avarice has already been noticed (Ecclesiastes 4:7-12); the covetous man now reprobated is one who desires wealth only for the enjoyment he can get from it, or the display which it enables him to make, not, like the miser, who gloats over its mere possession. Various instances are given in which riches are unprofitable and vain. Verse 10. - He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver. "Silver," the generic name for money, as Greek ἀργύριον and French argent. The insatiableness of the passion for money is a common theme of poets, moralists, and satirists, and is found in the proverbs of all nations. Thus Horace ('Ep.,' 1:2. 56): "Semper avarus eget;" to which St Jerome alludes ('Epist.,' 53), "Antiquum dictum est, Avaro tam deest, quod habet, quam quod non habet." Comp. Juvenal, 'Sat.,' 14:139 - "Interea pleno quum forget sacculus ere, "Creverunt etopes et opum furiosa cupido, Hebrew He who lovesאֹהֵ֥ב (’ō·hêḇ) Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular Strong's 157: To have affection f money כֶּ֙סֶף֙ (ke·sep̄) Noun - masculine singular Strong's 3701: Silver, money is never לֹא־ (lō-) Adverb - Negative particle Strong's 3808: Not, no satisfied יִשְׂבַּ֣ע (yiś·ba‘) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular Strong's 7646: To be sated, satisfied or surfeited by money, כֶּ֔סֶף (ke·sep̄) Noun - masculine singular Strong's 3701: Silver, money and he who וּמִֽי־ (ū·mî-) Conjunctive waw | Interrogative Strong's 4310: Who?, whoever, in oblique construction with prefix, suffix loves אֹהֵ֥ב (’ō·hêḇ) Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular Strong's 157: To have affection f wealth בֶּהָמ֖וֹן (be·hā·mō·wn) Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singular Strong's 1995: A noise, tumult, crowd, disquietude, wealth is never לֹ֣א (lō) Adverb - Negative particle Strong's 3808: Not, no satisfied by income. תְבוּאָ֑ה (ṯə·ḇū·’āh) Noun - feminine singular Strong's 8393: Product, revenue This זֶ֖ה (zeh) Pronoun - masculine singular Strong's 2088: This, that too גַּם־ (gam-) Conjunction Strong's 1571: Assemblage, also, even, yea, though, both, and is futile. הָֽבֶל׃ (hā·ḇel) Noun - masculine singular Strong's 1892: Emptiness, vanity, transitory, unsatisfactory Links Ecclesiastes 5:10 NIVEcclesiastes 5:10 NLT Ecclesiastes 5:10 ESV Ecclesiastes 5:10 NASB Ecclesiastes 5:10 KJV Ecclesiastes 5:10 BibleApps.com Ecclesiastes 5:10 Biblia Paralela Ecclesiastes 5:10 Chinese Bible Ecclesiastes 5:10 French Bible Ecclesiastes 5:10 Catholic Bible OT Poetry: Ecclesiastes 5:10 He who loves silver shall not be (Ecclesiast. Ec Ecc Eccles.) |
    |