Ecclesiastes 5:10

The 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.

Parallel Translations

New Living Translation
Those who love money will never have enough. How meaningless to think that wealth brings true happiness!

Update Bible Version
He that loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loves abundance, with increase: this also is vanity.

New Century Version
Whoever loves money will never have enough money; Whoever loves wealth will not be satisfied with it. This is also useless.

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.

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).

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.

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
An auerouse man schal not be fillid of monei; and he that loueth richessis schal not take fruytis of tho; and therfor this is vanyte.

English Revised Version
He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: 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.

Contemporary English Version
If you love money and wealth, you will never be satisfied with what you have. This doesn't make sense either.

American Standard Version
He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance, with increase: this also is vanity.

Bible in Basic English
He who has a love for silver never has enough silver, or he who has love for wealth, enough profit. This again is to no purpose.

Complete Jewish Bible
When the quantity of goods increases, so does the number of parasites consuming them; so the only advantage to the owner is that he gets to watch them do it.

Darby Translation
He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver, nor he that loveth abundance with increase. This also is vanity.

Easy-to-Read Version
Those who love money will never be satisfied with the money they have. Those who love wealth will not be satisfied when they get more and more. This is also senseless.

JPS Old Testament (1917)
When goods increase, they are increased that eat them; and what advantage is there to the owner thereof, saving the beholding of them with his eyes?

King James Version (1611)
Hee that loueth siluer shall not be satisfied with siluer; nor he that loueth abundance, with increase: this is also vanitie.

New Life Bible
He who loves money will never have enough money to make him happy. It is the same for the one who loves to get many things. This also is for nothing.

New Revised Standard
The lover of money will not be satisfied with money; nor the lover of wealth, with gain. This also is vanity.

Geneva Bible (1587)
He that loueth siluer, shall not be satisfied with siluer, and he that loueth riches, shalbe without the fruite thereof: this also is vanitie.

George Lamsa Translation
He who loves money shall not be satisfied with money; and he who loves wealth shall not retain it. This is also vanity.

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.

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
He that loveth silver, shall not be satisfied with silver nor, he that loveth abundance, with revenue, - -even this, was vanity.

Douay-Rheims Bible
(5-9) 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.

Revised Standard Version
He who loves money will not be satisfied with money; nor he who loves wealth, with gain: this also is vanity.

Bishop's Bible (1568)
He that loueth money, wyll neuer be satisfied with money: and he that loueth riches, shalbe without the fruite therof: This is also a vayne thyng.

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
In the multitude of good they are increased that eat it: and what virtue has the owner, but the right of beholding it with his eyes?

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.

Hebrew Names Version
He who loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he who loves abundance, with increase: this also is vanity.

King James Version
He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity.

Lexham English Bible
Whoever loves money is not satisfied with money, and whoever loves wealth is not satisfied with profit. This also is vanity!

Literal Translation
He who loves silver will not be satisfied with silver; and he who loves abundance does not gain. This is also 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.

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
He that loueth money, wil neuer be satisfied with money: and who so delyteth in riches, shal haue no profit therof. Is not this also a vayne thinge?

THE MESSAGE
The one who loves money is never satisfied with money, Nor the one who loves wealth with big profits. More smoke.

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.

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 (1995)
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.

Contextual Overview

⁹ The produce of the land is seized by all of them, even the king is served by the fields. ¹⁰ 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. ¹¹ 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? ¹² The sleep of the laborer is pleasant—whether he eats little or much— but the wealth of the rich will not allow him to sleep. ¹³ Here is a misfortune on earth that I have seen: Wealth hoarded by its owner to his own misery. ¹⁴ Then that wealth was lost through bad luck; although he fathered a son, he has nothing left to give him. ¹⁵ Just as he came forth from his mother's womb, naked will he return as he came, and he will take nothing in his hand that he may carry away from his toil. ¹⁶ This is another misfortune: Just as he came, so will he go. What did he gain from toiling for the wind? ¹⁷ Surely, he ate in darkness every day of his life, and he suffered greatly with sickness and anger.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

He that: The more he gets, the more he would get; for Crescit amor nummi, quantum ipsa pecunia crescit, "The love of money increases, in proportion as money itself increases." Ecclesiastes 4:8, Ecclesiastes 6:7, Psalms 52:1, Psalms 52:7, Psalms 62:10, Proverbs 30:15, Proverbs 30:16, Habakkuk 2:5-7, Matthew 6:19, Matthew 6:24, Luke 12:15, 1 Timothy 6:10

this: Ecclesiastes 1:17, Ecclesiastes 2:11, Ecclesiastes 2:17, Ecclesiastes 2:18, Ecclesiastes 2:26, Ecclesiastes 3:19, Ecclesiastes 4:4, Ecclesiastes 4:8, Ecclesiastes 4:16

Reciprocal: Genesis 13:6 - General Exodus 20:17 - thy neighbour's house Proverbs 15:6 - in the revenues Proverbs 15:16 - great Proverbs 27:20 - so Ecclesiastes 1:2 - General Ecclesiastes 1:8 - the eye Ecclesiastes 2:22 - hath man Isaiah 56:11 - can never have enough Ezekiel 7:19 - they shall not Matthew 13:22 - the deceitfulness Mark 4:19 - the deceitfulness 1 John 2:16 - and the lust

Gill's Notes on the Bible

He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver,.... The tillage of the earth is necessary, a very laudable and useful employment, and men do well to busy themselves in it; without this, neither the common people nor the greatest personages can be supplied with the necessaries of life; but then an immoderate love of money is criminal, which is here meant by loving silver, one kind of money, which when loved beyond measure is the root of all evil; and besides, when a man has got ever so much of it, he is not satisfied, he still wants more, like the horse leech at the vein cries Give, give; or he cannot eat silver, so Jarchi; or be "fed with money", as Mr. Broughton renders it; and herein the fruits of the earth, for which the husbandman labours, have the preference to silver; for these he can eat, and be filled and satisfied with them, but he cannot eat his bags of gold and silver;

nor he that loveth abundance with increase; that is, he that coveteth a great deal of this world's things shall not be satisfied with the increase of them, let that be what it will; or, he shall have "no increase" f, be ever the better for his abundance, or enjoy the comfort and benefit of it: or, "he that loveth abundance [from whence there is] no increase" g; that loves to have a multitude of people about him, as manservants and maidservants; a large equipage, as Aben Ezra suggests, which are of very little use and service, or none at all;

this [is] also vanity: the immoderate love of money, coveting large estates and possessions, and to have a train of servants. Jarchi allegorically interprets silver and abundance, of the commands, and the multitude of them.

f לא תבואה "non erit proventus illi", Vatablus, Mercerus, Gejerus; "nullum fructum percipit", Tigurine version. g "Qui amat copiam, sc. multitudinem ex qua non est sperandus profectus", Schmidt, so Gussetius.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ecclesiastes 5:10. He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver — The more he gets, the more he would get; for the saying is true: -

Crescit amor nummi, quantum ipsa pecunia crescit.

"The love of money increases, in proportion as money itself

increases."