Simple verse list for ECC 5:13

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Original ECC 5:12: Text critical issues=none Clarity of original=clear Importance to us=normal Speaker(s)=Narrator (All still tentative.)

OET (OET-RV) There’s a sad contradiction that I’ve seen in this world: ⇔ wealth hoarded up by its owner, but working to destroy him.

OET-LV (ECC 5:12) [fn] There_is an _evil severe which_I _have _seen under the_sun wealth was_being _kept by_owner(s)_of_its to_harm _of_his.

ULT ⇔ There is a sickening misfortune I have seen under the sun: Wealth kept by its master to his harm.

UST ⇔ I have observed that money is the cause of another lamentable, gut-wrenching situation that can happen to people during their lives. I have watched someone diligently save all of his substantial income. But, rather than protecting him, his wealth ultimately caused him financial and emotional pain.

BSB & MSB There is a grievous evil I have seen under the sun: wealth hoarded to the harm of its owner,

OEB Mapped passage is not available in this edition.

WEBBE & WMBB There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun: wealth kept by its owner to his harm.

NET Here is a misfortune on earth that I have seen: ⇔ Wealth hoarded by its owner to his own misery.

LSV There is a painful evil I have seen under the sun: wealth kept for its possessor, for his evil.

FBV I observed something here that is really sickening:[fn] people who hoard money damage themselves.

T4T ¶ I have seen another terrible thing that happens here on the earth [MTY]: ⇔ People save up all their money and become rich, ⇔ but they are not helped by saving a lot of money,

LEB ¶ There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun: wealth _⌊hoarded_⌋[fn] by its owner to his harm.

BBE There is a great evil which I have seen under the sun — wealth kept by the owner to be his downfall.

Moff A sore evil have I seen in the world, wealth hoarded to the owner’s loss:

JPS (ECC 5:12) (5-11) Sweet is the sleep of a labouring man, whether he eat little or much; but the satiety of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.

ASV There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept by the owner thereof to his hurt:

DRA (ECC 5:12) There is also another grievous evil, which I have seen under the sun: riches kept to the hurt of the owner.

YLT There is a painful evil I have seen under the sun: wealth kept for its possessor, for his evil.

Drby There is a grievous evil that I have seen under the sun: riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt;

RV There is a grievous evil, which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept by the owner thereof to his hurt:

SLT There is an evil making sick I saw under the sun: riches watched to its owners for their evil.

Wbstr There is a grievous evil which I have seen under the sun, namely , riches kept for the owners of them to their hurt.

KJB-1769 There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt.

KJB-1611 There is a sore euill which I haue seene vnder the Sun, namely riches kept for the owners therof to their hurt.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from capitalisation and punctuation)

Bshps Yet is there a sore plague which I haue seene vnder the sunne namely riches kept to the hurt of him that hath them in possession:
(Yet is there a sore plague which I have seen under the sun namely riches kept to the hurt of him that hath/has them in possession:)

Gnva And these riches perish by euill trauel, and he begetteth a sonne, and in his hand is nothing.
(And these riches perish by evil travel, and he begetteth a son, and in his hand is nothing.)

Cvdl Yet is there a sore plage, which I haue sene vnder the Sonne (namely) riches kepte to the hurte of him yt hath them in possession.
(Yet is there a sore plague, which I have seen under the sun (namely) riches kept to the hurt of him it hath/has them in possession.)

Wycl (ECC 5:12) Also anothir sijknesse is ful yuel, which Y siy vndur the sunne; richessis ben kept in to the yuel of her lord.
(Also another sickness is full evil, which I saw under the sun; riches been kept in to the evil of her lord.)

Luth (ECC 5:12) Es ist eine böse Plage, die ich sah unter der Sonne, Reichtum behalten zum Schaden dem, der ihn hat.
(It is a/one evil plague/infliction, the I saw(v) under the/of_the sun, wealth/abundance keep for_the damage/harm(n) to_him, the/of_the him/it has.)

ClVg (ECC 5:12) [Est et alia infirmitas pessima quam vidi sub sole: divitiæ conservatæ in malum domini sui.[fn]
([It_is and other weakness worst how I_saw under sole: wealth preserved in/into/on evil master self.)

UHB 12 יֵ֚שׁ רָעָ֣ה חוֹלָ֔ה רָאִ֖יתִי תַּ֣חַת הַ⁠שָּׁ֑מֶשׁ עֹ֛שֶׁר שָׁמ֥וּר לִ⁠בְעָלָ֖י⁠ו לְ⁠רָעָתֽ⁠וֹ׃ ‡

BrLXX (ECC 5:12) Ἔστιν ἀῤῥωστία ἣν εἶδον ὑπὸ τὸν ἥλιον, πλοῦτον φυλασσόμενον τῷ παρʼ αὐτοῦ εἰς κακίαν αὐτῷ,

BrTr (ECC 5:12) There is an infirmity which I have seen under the sun, namely, wealth kept for its owner to his hurt.