 | Rabbeinu Yonah - Religion - 1967 - 406 pages
...desires two hundred. If he attains two hundred, he desires four hundred" (Koheleth Kabbah 1 : 34). as it is written, "He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver" (Ecclesiastes 5:9). XXVIII. A third consideration: Time grows short and there is much work — the... | |
 | Robert Atwan, Laurance Wieder - Poetry - 1993 - 514 pages
...of vanities. Moreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king himself is served by the field. He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with...silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity. When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: and what good is there... | |
 | Emmanuel Levinas - Religion - 1994 - 248 pages
...parallelism of the two hemistiches is destroyed. The correct translation, the plain translation, should say: 'He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver, nor he that loveth wealth with increase (or gain)'. Now, in the second hemistich, the negation expressed in the Hebrew... | |
 | John W. Lawrence - Religion - 1996 - 244 pages
...the eyes, and the pride of life. These things never satisfy the unbeliever, let alone the believer. "He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with...silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase" (Eccl. 5:10). "The folks who spend their days In buying cars and clothes and rings Don't seem to know... | |
 | Sherry Hutson Camperson - Religion - 1996 - 162 pages
...1:8). The eye is not satisfied with riches (4:8). Solomon reiterates the same theme with a variation, "He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with...silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity" (5:10). Isaiah asks a probing question: "Wherefore do ye spend money for that... | |
 | Jonathan Dollimore - Civilization, Western - 1998 - 424 pages
...anything he desired. But all this was 'futility and a grasping at the wind' (2:11, Scott). In short, 'He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with...silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase'; man's wants 'are never satisfied' (5:10, AV; 6:7, Scott). Death is the great leveller (2:16). The positive... | |
 | Religion - 1999 - 462 pages
...invited, 'Come up here', than be humiliated in the presence of the prince. Proverbs 25:6-7 NJB 6.13 He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with...silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity. When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: and what good is there... | |
 | Elizabeth Rice Handford - Health & Fitness - 2000 - 108 pages
...thirst again. So when the body is clothed, it will yet desire more clothing. Ecclesiastes 5:10 says, "He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with...silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity." A famous billionaire was asked (he tells the story in his autobiography), "How... | |
 | Dagobert D. Runes - Fiction - 2001 - 308 pages
...higher than they. Moreover, the profit of the earth is for all: the king himself is served by the field. He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with...silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity. When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: and what good is there... | |
 | Jacob Neusner - Religion - 2001 - 342 pages
...Avarice fetters a man with worldly cares, and makes of toil and traffic thick ropes about his arms, as it is written, "He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver" (Eccl. 5:9). The love of money distracts him from the performance of religious duties, for under the... | |
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He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity. 
