Ecclesiastes 5:14New American Standard Bible (NASB ©1995) [2]
— When those riches were lost through a bad investment and he had fathered a son, then there was nothing to support him.
King James Version (KJV 1769) [2]
— But those riches perish by evil travail: and he begetteth a son, and [there is] nothing in his hand.
English Revised Version (ERV 1885)
— and those riches perish by evil adventure; and if he hath begotten a son, there is nothing in his hand.
American Standard Version (ASV 1901) [2]
— and those riches perish by evil adventure; and if he hath begotten a son, there is nothing in his hand.
Webster's Revision of the KJB (WEB 1833)
— But those riches perish by evil labor: and he begetteth a son, and [there is] nothing in his hand.
Darby's Translation (DBY 1890)
— or those riches perish by some evil circumstance, and if he have begotten a son, there is nothing in his hand.
Rotherham's Emphasized Bible (EBR 1902)
— and those riches perish, by being ill employed,—and though he begetteth a son, yet is there in his hand nothing at all.
Young's Literal Translation (YLT 1898)
— And that wealth hath been lost in an evil business, and he hath begotten a son and there is nothing in his hand!
Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision (DR 1750)
— For they are lost with very great affliction: he hath begotten a son, who shall be in extremity of want.
Geneva Bible (GNV 1560)
— And these riches perish by euill trauel, and he begetteth a sonne, and in his hand is nothing.
Original King James Bible (AV 1611) [2]
— But those riches perish by euill trauell; and he begetteth a sonne, and there is nothing in his hand.
Lamsa Bible (1957)
— And those riches are lost in a bad venture; for when he begets a son, there is nothing in his hand.
Brenton Greek Septuagint (LXX, Restored Names)
— And that wealth shall perish in an evil trouble: and [the man] begets a son, and there is nothing in his hand.
Full Hebrew Names / Holy Name KJV (2008) [2] [3]
— But those riches perish by evil travail: and he begetteth a son, and [there is] nothing in his hand. |
But those
x1931 (1931) Complementהוּאhuw'{hoo}
The second form is the feminine beyond the Pentateuch; a primitive word, the third person pronoun singular, he ( she or it); only expressed when emphatic or without a verb; also (intensively) self, or (especially with the article) the same; sometimes (as demonstrative) this or that; occasionally (instead of copula) as or are.
riches
6239
perish
6 {0006} Primeאָבַד'abad{aw-bad'}
A primitive root; properly to wander away, that is lose oneself; by implication to perish (causatively, destroy).
z8804 <8804> Grammar
Stem - Qal (See H8851) Mood - Perfect (See H8816) Count - 12562
by evil
7451 {7451} Primeרָעra`{rah}
From H7489; bad or (as noun) evil (naturally or morally). This includes the second (feminine) form; as adjective or noun.
travail:
6045 {6045} Primeעִנְיָן`inyan{in-yawn'}
From H6031; ado, that is, (generally) employment or (specifically) an affair.
and he begetteth
3205 {3205} Primeיָלַדyalad{yaw-lad'}
A primitive root; to bear young; causatively to beget; medically to act as midwife; specifically to show lineage.
z8689 <8689> Grammar
Stem - Hiphil (See H8818) Mood - Perfect (See H8816) Count - 2675
a son,
1121 {1121} Primeבֵּןben{bane}
From H1129; a son (as a builder of the family name), in the widest sense (of literal and figurative relationship, including grandson, subject, nation, quality or condition, etc., (like H0001, H0251, etc.).
and [ there is] nothing
3972 {3972} Primeמְאוּמָהm@uwmah{meh-oo'-maw}
Apparently a form of H3971; properly a speck or point, that is, (by implication) something; with negative nothing.
x369 (0369) Complementאַיִן'ayin{ah'-yin}
As if from a primitive root meaning to be nothing or not exist; a non-entity; generally used as a negative particle.
in his hand.
3027 {3027} Primeיָדyad{yawd}
A primitive word; a hand (the open one (indicating power, means, direction, etc.), in distinction from H3709, the closed one); used (as noun, adverb, etc.) in a great variety of applications, both literally and figuratively, both proximate and remote. |
Ecclesiastes 5:14
Perish — By some wicked practices, either his own, or of other men. Nothing — In the son's possession after his father's death. |
Ecclesiastes 5:14
But those riches perish by evil labour: and he begetteth a son, and [there is] nothing in his (l) hand.
(l) He does not enjoy his father's riches. |
- those:
Ecclesiastes 2:26 For [God] giveth to a man that [is] good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he giveth travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to [him that is] good before God. This also [is] vanity and vexation of spirit.
Job 5:5 Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, and taketh it even out of the thorns, and the robber swalloweth up their substance.
Job 20:15-29 He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again: God shall cast them out of his belly. ... This [is] the portion of a wicked man from God, and the heritage appointed unto him by God.
Job 27:16-17 Though he heap up silver as the dust, and prepare raiment as the clay; ... He may prepare [it], but the just shall put [it] on, and the innocent shall divide the silver.
Psalms 39:6 Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up [riches], and knoweth not who shall gather them.
Proverbs 23:5 Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for [riches] certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.
Haggai 1:9 Ye looked for much, and, lo, [it came] to little; and when ye brought [it] home, I did blow upon it. Why? saith the LORD of hosts. Because of mine house that [is] waste, and ye run every man unto his own house.
Haggai 2:16-17 Since those [days] were, when [one] came to an heap of twenty [measures], there were [but] ten: when [one] came to the pressfat for to draw out fifty [vessels] out of the press, there were [but] twenty. ... I smote you with blasting and with mildew and with hail in all the labours of your hands; yet ye [turned] not to me, saith the LORD.
Matthew 6:19-20 Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth, where moth and rust doth corrupt, and where thieves break through and steal: ... But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt, and where thieves do not break through nor steal:
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1 Samuel 2:6-8 The LORD killeth, and maketh alive: he bringeth down to the grave, and bringeth up. ... He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, [and] lifteth up the beggar from the dunghill, to set [them] among princes, and to make them inherit the throne of glory: for the pillars of the earth [are] the LORD'S, and he hath set the world upon them.
1 Samuel 2:36 And it shall come to pass, [that] every one that is left in thine house shall come [and] crouch to him for a piece of silver and a morsel of bread, and shall say, Put me, I pray thee, into one of the priests' offices, that I may eat a piece of bread.
1 Kings 14:26 And he took away the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king's house; he even took away all: and he took away all the shields of gold which Solomon had made.
Psalms 109:9-12 Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow. ... Let there be none to extend mercy unto him: neither let there be any to favour his fatherless children.
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