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Chinese NCV (Simplified)

貪愛銀子的，不因有銀子滿足；貪愛財富的，也不因得利知足。這也是虛空。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
贪 爱 银 子 的 ， 不 因 得 银 子 知 足 ； 贪 爱 丰 富 的 ， 也 不 因 得 利 益 知 足 。 这 也 是 虚 空 。

Contextual Overview

⁹ The wealth of the country is divided up among them all. Even the king makes sure he gets his share of the profits. ¹⁰ Whoever loves money will never have enough money; Whoever loves wealth will not be satisfied with it. This is also useless. ¹¹ The more wealth people have, the more friends they have to help spend it. So what do people really gain? They gain nothing except to look at their riches. ¹² Those who work hard sleep in peace; it is not important if they eat little or much. But rich people worry about their wealth and cannot sleep. ¹³ I have seen real misery here on earth: Money saved is a curse to its owners. ¹⁴ They lose it all in a bad deal and have nothing to give to their children. ¹⁵ People come into this world with nothing, and when they die they leave with nothing. In spite of all their hard work, they leave just as they came. ¹⁶ This, too, is real misery: They leave just as they came. So what do they gain from chasing the wind? ¹⁷ All they get are days full of sadness and sorrow, and they end up sick, defeated, and angry.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

He that: The more he gets, the more he would get; for Crescit amor nummi, quantum ipsa pecunia crescit, "The love of money increases, in proportion as money itself increases." Ecclesiastes 4:8, Ecclesiastes 6:7, Psalms 52:1, Psalms 52:7, Psalms 62:10, Proverbs 30:15, Proverbs 30:16, Habakkuk 2:5-7, Matthew 6:19, Matthew 6:24, Luke 12:15, 1 Timothy 6:10

this: Ecclesiastes 1:17, Ecclesiastes 2:11, Ecclesiastes 2:17, Ecclesiastes 2:18, Ecclesiastes 2:26, Ecclesiastes 3:19, Ecclesiastes 4:4, Ecclesiastes 4:8, Ecclesiastes 4:16

Reciprocal: Genesis 13:6 - General Exodus 20:17 - thy neighbour's house Proverbs 15:6 - in the revenues Proverbs 15:16 - great Proverbs 27:20 - so Ecclesiastes 1:2 - General Ecclesiastes 1:8 - the eye Ecclesiastes 2:22 - hath man Isaiah 56:11 - can never have enough Ezekiel 7:19 - they shall not Matthew 13:22 - the deceitfulness Mark 4:19 - the deceitfulness 1 John 2:16 - and the lust

Gill's Notes on the Bible

He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver,.... The tillage of the earth is necessary, a very laudable and useful employment, and men do well to busy themselves in it; without this, neither the common people nor the greatest personages can be supplied with the necessaries of life; but then an immoderate love of money is criminal, which is here meant by loving silver, one kind of money, which when loved beyond measure is the root of all evil; and besides, when a man has got ever so much of it, he is not satisfied, he still wants more, like the horse leech at the vein cries Give, give; or he cannot eat silver, so Jarchi; or be "fed with money", as Mr. Broughton renders it; and herein the fruits of the earth, for which the husbandman labours, have the preference to silver; for these he can eat, and be filled and satisfied with them, but he cannot eat his bags of gold and silver;

nor he that loveth abundance with increase; that is, he that coveteth a great deal of this world's things shall not be satisfied with the increase of them, let that be what it will; or, he shall have "no increase" f, be ever the better for his abundance, or enjoy the comfort and benefit of it: or, "he that loveth abundance [from whence there is] no increase" g; that loves to have a multitude of people about him, as manservants and maidservants; a large equipage, as Aben Ezra suggests, which are of very little use and service, or none at all;

this [is] also vanity: the immoderate love of money, coveting large estates and possessions, and to have a train of servants. Jarchi allegorically interprets silver and abundance, of the commands, and the multitude of them.

f לא תבואה "non erit proventus illi", Vatablus, Mercerus, Gejerus; "nullum fructum percipit", Tigurine version. g "Qui amat copiam, sc. multitudinem ex qua non est sperandus profectus", Schmidt, so Gussetius.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ecclesiastes 5:10. He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver — The more he gets, the more he would get; for the saying is true: -

Crescit amor nummi, quantum ipsa pecunia crescit.

"The love of money increases, in proportion as money itself

increases."