Ecclésiaste 5:11DRA

Bible Catholique · DRA · Verset 11 sur 20

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"When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: and what good to the owners thereof, saving the beholding with their eyes?"
Ecclésiaste 5:11

En contexte

9Moreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king is served by the field.

10He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this also vanity.

11When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: and what good to the owners thereof, saving the beholding with their eyes?

12The sleep of a labouring man sweet, whether he eat little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.

13There is a sore evil I have seen under the sun, , riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt.

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