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 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?

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 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!

As goods increase, so do those who consume them. And what benefit are they to the owners except to feast their eyes on them?

11 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?

אֹהֵ֥ב כֶּ֙סֶף֙ לֹא־יִשְׂבַּ֣ע כֶּ֔סֶף וּמִֽי־אֹהֵ֥ב בֶּהָמ֖וֹן לֹ֣א תְבוּאָ֑ה גַּם־זֶ֖ה הָֽבֶל׃ A lover of money never has his fill of money, nor a lover of wealth his fill of income. That too is futile ...

Ecclesiastes 5:11 - When good things increase, those who consume them increase. So what is the advantage to their owners except to look at them? on ...

"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?