The sleep of a servant is sweet, whether he eat little or much: but to one who is satiated with wealth, there is none that suffers him to sleep.
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Ecclesiastes 5:11
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?
Parallel Translations
The sleep of a servant is sweet, whether he eat little or much: but to one who is satiated with wealth, there is none that suffers him to sleep.
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?
The sleepe of him that traueileth, is sweete, whether he eate litle or much: but the sacietie of the riche will not suffer him to sleepe.
Cross References
1 John 2:16Habakkuk 2:13Proverbs 23:5Psalms 119:36–37Ecclesiastes 6:9Joshua 7:21–251 Kings 5:13–16Genesis 13:5–7Nehemiah 5:17–18Ecclesiastes 11:9Genesis 12:16Genesis 13:2Jeremiah 17:111 Kings 4:22–23
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