Écclésiaste 5:14

Louis Segond

Ces richesses se perdent par quelque événement fâcheux; il a engendré un fils, et il ne reste rien entre ses mains.

Parallel Translations

La Bible David Martin (1744)
Et ces richesses-là périssent par quelque fâcheux accident, de sorte qu'on aura engendré un enfant, et il n'aura rien entre ses mains.

La Bible Ostervald (1996)
Et ces richesses périssent par un mauvais trafic, et s'il a engendré un fils, il n'aura rien entre les mains.

Darby's French Translation
-ou ces richesses périssent par quelque circonstance malheureuse, et il a engendré un fils, et il n'a rien en sa main.

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.