货物增添，吃的人也增添，物主得什么益处呢？不过眼看而已！

货物增添，吃的人也增添，物主得什么益处呢？不过眼看而已！

货物增添，吃的人也增添，物主得什么益处呢？不过眼看而已！

财富增加，消费的人也增加，这对财富的主人有什么益处呢？只是过眼烟云罢了！

财物增加，吃用的人也增加，物主除了眼看以外，还有什么益处呢？

财物增加，吃用的人也增加，而主人除了眼看以外，还有什么益处呢？

貨物增添，吃的人也增添，物主得甚麼益處呢？不過眼看而已！

貨物增添，吃的人也增添，物主得甚麼益處呢？不過眼看而已！

貨物增添，吃的人也增添，物主得甚麼益處呢？不過眼看而已！

財富增加，消費的人也增加，這對財富的主人有什麼益處呢？只是過眼雲煙罷了！

財物增加，吃用的人也增加，物主除了眼看以外，還有甚麼益處呢？

財物加多，喫的人也加多；物主得了甚麼益處呢？不過是眼看着罷了。

財物增加，吃用的人也增加，而主人除了眼看以外，還有什麼益處呢？

貨財增、食之者亦增、其主有何益哉、惟目睹之而已、

財充則用繁、有財何裨。

勞者無論食多食寡、寢必沈酣、富者豐裕、反不得寢、

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

As more and more goods are made, more and more people use them up. So how can those goods benefit their owners? All they can do is look at them with desire.

When goods increase, they increase who eat them, and what advantage has their owner but to see them with his 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!

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?

When good things increase, those who consume them increase. So what is the advantage to their owners except to look at them?

When goods increase, They increase who eat them; So what profit have the owners Except to see them with their eyes?

When goods increase, they are increased that eat them; and what advantage is there to the owner thereof, save the beholding of them with his eyes?

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?

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?

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?

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?

(niv)

Has not the Lord Almighty determined that the people’s labor is only fuel for the fire, that the nations exhaust themselves for nothing? (niv)

When I saw in the plunder a beautiful robe from Babylonia, two hundred shekels of silver and a bar of gold weighing fifty shekels, I coveted them and took them. They are hidden in the ground inside my tent, with the silver underneath.”So Joshua sent messengers, and they ran to the tent, and there it was, hidden in his tent, with the silver underneath.They took the things from the tent, brought them to Joshua and all the Israelites and spread them out before the Lord.Then Joshua, together with all Israel, took Achan son of Zerah, the silver, the robe, the gold bar, his sons and daughters, his cattle, donkeys and sheep, his tent and all that he had, to the Valley of Achor.Joshua said,“ Why have you brought this trouble on us? The Lord will bring trouble on you today.” Then all Israel stoned him, and after they had stoned the rest, they burned them. (niv)

Now Lot, who was moving about with Abram, also had flocks and herds and tents.But the land could not support them while they stayed together, for their possessions were so great that they were not able to stay together.And quarreling arose between Abram’s herders and Lot’s. The Canaanites and Perizzites were also living in the land at that time. (niv)

He treated Abram well for her sake, and Abram acquired sheep and cattle, male and female donkeys, male and female servants, and camels. (niv)

Furthermore, a hundred and fifty Jews and officials ate at my table, as well as those who came to us from the surrounding nations.Each day one ox, six choice sheep and some poultry were prepared for me, and every ten days an abundant supply of wine of all kinds. In spite of all this, I never demanded the food allotted to the governor, because the demands were heavy on these people. (niv)

Abram had become very wealthy in livestock and in silver and gold. (niv)

Better what the eye sees than the roving of the appetite. This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind. (niv)

Turn my heart toward your statutes and not toward selfish gain.Turn my eyes away from worthless things; preserve my life according to your word. (niv)

King Solomon conscripted laborers from all Israel— thirty thousand men.He sent them off to Lebanon in shifts of ten thousand a month, so that they spent one month in Lebanon and two months at home. Adoniram was in charge of the forced labor.Solomon had seventy thousand carriers and eighty thousand stonecutters in the hills,as well as thirty-three hundred foremen who supervised the project and directed the workers. (niv)

Cast but a glance at riches, and they are gone, for they will surely sprout wings and fly off to the sky like an eagle. (niv)

You who are young, be happy while you are young, and let your heart give you joy in the days of your youth. Follow the ways of your heart and whatever your eyes see, but know that for all these things God will bring you into judgment. (niv)

Solomon’s daily provisions were thirty cors of the finest flour and sixty cors of meal,ten head of stall-fed cattle, twenty of pasture-fed cattle and a hundred sheep and goats, as well as deer, gazelles, roebucks and choice fowl. (niv)

Like a partridge that hatches eggs it did not lay are those who gain riches by unjust means. When their lives are half gone, their riches will desert them, and in the end they will prove to be fools. (niv)