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Ecclesiastes 5:11
NIV:  As goods increase, so do those who consume them. And what benefit are they to the owners except to feast their eyes on them?
NAS:  When good things increase, those who consume them increase. So what is the advantage to their owners except to look on?
KJV:  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?
GWT:  As the number of goods increase, so do the number of people who consume them. What do owners gain [from all their goods] except [the opportunity] to look at them?
ASV:  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?
BBE:  When goods are increased, the number of those who take of them is increased; and what profit has the owner but to see them?
DBY:  When goods increase, they are increased that eat them; and what profit is there to the owner thereof, except the beholding of them with his eyes?
DRB:  Where there are great riches, there are also many to eat them. And what doth it profit the owner, but that he seeth the riches with his eyes?
WBS:  When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: and what good is there to the owners of them, saving the beholding of them with their eyes?
WEB:  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?
YLT:  In the multiplying of good have its consumers been multiplied, and what benefit is to its possessor except the sight of his eyes?

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