Ecclesiastes 5:12 — Bible Verse (KJV)
“The sleep of a labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.”
Ecclesiastes 5:12 — King James Version (KJV), 1611
Ecclesiastes 5:12 in 6 Bible Translations
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Ecclesiastes 5:12 WEB — World English Bible (2000)
“The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eats little or much; but the abundance of the rich will not allow him to sleep.”
Ecclesiastes 5:12 — World English Bible
Ecclesiastes 5:12 ASV — American Standard Version (1901)
“The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much; but the fulness of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.”
Ecclesiastes 5:12 — American Standard Version
Ecclesiastes 5:12 YLT — Young's Literal Translation (1862)
“Sweet <FI>is<Fi> the sleep of the labourer whether he eat little or much; and the sufficiency of the wealthy is not suffering him to sleep.”
Ecclesiastes 5:12 — Young's Literal Translation
Ecclesiastes 5:12 DBY — Darby Translation (1890)
“The sleep of the labourer is sweet, whether he have eaten little or much; but the fulness of the rich doth not suffer him to sleep.”
Ecclesiastes 5:12 — Darby Translation
Ecclesiastes 5:12 GEN — Geneva Bible (1599)
“There is an euill sickenes that I haue seene vnder the sunne: to wit, riches reserued to the owners thereof for their euill.”
Ecclesiastes 5:12 — Geneva Bible
Ecclesiastes 5:12 in Context — Ecclesiastes 5
10 O que amar o dinheiro nunca se saciará do dinheiro; e quem amar a riqueza, nunca [se saciará] do lucro; isso também é futilidade.
11 Onde os bens se multiplicam, ali se multiplicam também os que os cosomem; e que proveito pois tem seus donos, a não ser somente ver [as riquezas] com seus próprios olhos?
12 Doce é o sono do trabalhador, quer coma pouco, quer muito; porém a fartura do rico não o deixa dormir.
13 Há um mal causador de sofrimentos que vi abaixo do sol: as riquezas que seus donos guardam para seu próprio mal.
14 Porque as mesmas riquezas se perdem com negócios malsucedidos; e quando gera algum filho, nada lhe fica em sua mão.
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What Does Ecclesiastes 5:12 Mean?
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