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Chinese NCV (Simplified)

遭遇禍患，財富就盡失；他即使生了兒子，也沒有甚麼留給他。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
因 遭 遇 祸 患 ， 这 些 资 财 就 消 灭 ； 那 人 若 生 了 儿 子 ， 手 里 也 一 无 所 有 。

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

those: Ecclesiastes 2:26, Job 5:5, Job 20:15-29, Job 27:16, Job 27:17, Psalms 39:6, Proverbs 23:5, Haggai 1:9, Haggai 2:16, Haggai 2:17, Matthew 6:19, Matthew 6:20

and he: 1 Samuel 2:6-8, 1 Samuel 2:36, 1 Kings 14:26, Psalms 109:9-12

Reciprocal: Esther 8:2 - Esther set Job 20:20 - Surely Proverbs 8:18 - durable Proverbs 13:11 - Wealth Ecclesiastes 2:18 - I should Jeremiah 48:36 - the riches Matthew 13:22 - the deceitfulness Luke 12:20 - then 1 Timothy 6:17 - uncertain riches James 5:1 - ye 1 Peter 1:7 - that

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But those riches perish by evil travail,.... Or, "by an evil business or affair" n. That is, such riches as are not well got, or are not used as they should be, these waste away and come to nothing; either by the owner's bad management, and misconduct in trade and business; or by fire, tempest, thieves, and robbers, and many other ways and means: these are very certain things; and there are various ways by which they make themselves wings and flee away, under the direction of a divine providence;

and he begetteth a son, and [there is] nothing in his hand; the riches he had hoarded up, he designed for his son; but being stripped of them by one means or another, when he comes to die, has nothing to leave his son: or if his riches do not perish in his own lifetime, yet they are quickly consumed by his son, who, in a short time, has nothing to live upon; and so being brought up a gentleman, and in no business, is in a worse condition than such who have been brought up to work for their living, and in no expectation of an estate after the decease of their friends. The Targum understands it in this latter sense, paraphrasing the words thus,

"and those riches, which he shall leave his son after his death, shall perish, because he hath gotten them in an evil way; and they shall not remain in the hand of the son whom he hath begotten; neither shall anything remain in his hand.''

n בענין רע "occupatione, negotio, vel casu malo", Gejerus.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Evil travail - Adverse accident, or unsuccessful employment (compare Ecclesiastes 1:13; Ecclesiastes 4:8).

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 14. And he begetteth a son, and there is nothing in his hand. — He has been stripped of his property by unfortunate trade or by plunderers; and he has nothing to leave to his children.